Gary Alan Fine is the James E. Johnson Professor of Sociology at Northwestern University. He has written many books, including, most recently Talking Art: The Culture of Practice and the Practice of Culture and Players and Pawns: How Chess Builds Community and Culture, both published by the University of Chicago Press.
From Henry Darger’s elaborate paintings of young girls caught in a vicious war to the sacred art of the Reverend Howard Finster, the work of outsider artists has achieved unique status in the art world. Celebrated for their lack of traditional training and their position on the fringes of society, outsider artists nonetheless participate in a traditional network of value, status, and money. After spending years immersed in the world of self-taught artists, Gary Alan Fine presents Everyday Genius, one of the most insightful and comprehensive examinations of this network and how it confers artistic value.
Fine considers the differences among folk art, outsider art, and self-taught art, explaining the economics of this distinctive art market and exploring the dimensions of its artistic production and distribution. Interviewing dealers, collectors, curators, and critics and venturing into the backwoods and inner-city homes of numerous self-taught artists, Fine describes how authenticity is central to the system in which artists—often poor, elderly, members of a minority group, or mentally ill—are seen as having an unfettered form of expression highly valued in the art world. Respected dealers, he shows, have a hand in burnishing biographies of the artists, and both dealers and collectors trade in identities as much as objects.
Revealing the inner workings of an elaborate and prestigious world in which money, personalities, and values affect one another, Fine speaks eloquently to both experts and general readers, and provides rare access to a world of creative invention-both by self-taught artists and by those who profit from their work.
“Indispensable for an understanding of this world and its workings. . . . Fine’s book is not an attack on the Outsider Art phenomenon. But it is masterful in its anatomization of some of its contradictions, conflicts, pressures, and absurdities.”—Eric Gibson, Washington Times
發表於2024-08-20
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十多年前,藝術史傢白謙慎曾做瞭一次測試:他把路邊看到的“韆佛”、“陽摩”等字反轉,僞裝成拓片狀,在颱灣大學美術史研究所演講時,放給在場的教授、研究生們(其中有好幾位是研究書法史的)看,宣稱這些圖片是新齣土的北朝石刻文字。連他自己也感到吃驚的是,當時在場的居...
評分十多年前,藝術史傢白謙慎曾做瞭一次測試:他把路邊看到的“韆佛”、“陽摩”等字反轉,僞裝成拓片狀,在颱灣大學美術史研究所演講時,放給在場的教授、研究生們(其中有好幾位是研究書法史的)看,宣稱這些圖片是新齣土的北朝石刻文字。連他自己也感到吃驚的是,當時在場的居...
評分十多年前,藝術史傢白謙慎曾做瞭一次測試:他把路邊看到的“韆佛”、“陽摩”等字反轉,僞裝成拓片狀,在颱灣大學美術史研究所演講時,放給在場的教授、研究生們(其中有好幾位是研究書法史的)看,宣稱這些圖片是新齣土的北朝石刻文字。連他自己也感到吃驚的是,當時在場的居...
評分十多年前,藝術史傢白謙慎曾做瞭一次測試:他把路邊看到的“韆佛”、“陽摩”等字反轉,僞裝成拓片狀,在颱灣大學美術史研究所演講時,放給在場的教授、研究生們(其中有好幾位是研究書法史的)看,宣稱這些圖片是新齣土的北朝石刻文字。連他自己也感到吃驚的是,當時在場的居...
評分十多年前,藝術史傢白謙慎曾做瞭一次測試:他把路邊看到的“韆佛”、“陽摩”等字反轉,僞裝成拓片狀,在颱灣大學美術史研究所演講時,放給在場的教授、研究生們(其中有好幾位是研究書法史的)看,宣稱這些圖片是新齣土的北朝石刻文字。連他自己也感到吃驚的是,當時在場的居...
圖書標籤: 藝術理論 文化研究
“非主流藝術傢”到底算什麼?如何定位?“當代藝術”,及“主流藝術”,又如何定義自己。這本書語言很直白,精確。
評分“非主流藝術傢”到底算什麼?如何定位?“當代藝術”,及“主流藝術”,又如何定義自己。這本書語言很直白,精確。
評分“非主流藝術傢”到底算什麼?如何定位?“當代藝術”,及“主流藝術”,又如何定義自己。這本書語言很直白,精確。
評分Gary Fine教授在去年春天將此書贈予我,我也承擔瞭該書的翻譯。但因為種種事宜,今天纔將此書讀完,真是慚愧。作者在書中研究瞭自學成纔的藝術傢,對於那些藝術傢而言,沒有受過科班訓練,完全靠自己摸索進行創作是他們“本真性”的標誌。作者循序漸進地探討瞭邊界、生平、藝術傢、收藏、社群、市場和組織機構,結語的藝術界部分則對全書進行瞭總結。全書讀畢,不得不摺服於作者這位民族誌高手對藝術界中各種角色以及他們之間復雜和微妙關係的細緻觀察和把握。在我個人看來,講述生平的那一章最有新意,講述組織機構的那章最為精彩。這本書的理論基礎還是貝剋爾的藝術界,文中對此也有很多體現。和貝剋爾一樣,作者也對寫作的文風有明確的追求,所以該書讀來簡潔流暢。而作者現在在西北大學的辦公室,正是當年貝剋爾的辦公室。準備著手翻譯瞭!
評分Gary Fine教授在去年春天將此書贈予我,我也承擔瞭該書的翻譯。但因為種種事宜,今天纔將此書讀完,真是慚愧。作者在書中研究瞭自學成纔的藝術傢,對於那些藝術傢而言,沒有受過科班訓練,完全靠自己摸索進行創作是他們“本真性”的標誌。作者循序漸進地探討瞭邊界、生平、藝術傢、收藏、社群、市場和組織機構,結語的藝術界部分則對全書進行瞭總結。全書讀畢,不得不摺服於作者這位民族誌高手對藝術界中各種角色以及他們之間復雜和微妙關係的細緻觀察和把握。在我個人看來,講述生平的那一章最有新意,講述組織機構的那章最為精彩。這本書的理論基礎還是貝剋爾的藝術界,文中對此也有很多體現。和貝剋爾一樣,作者也對寫作的文風有明確的追求,所以該書讀來簡潔流暢。而作者現在在西北大學的辦公室,正是當年貝剋爾的辦公室。準備著手翻譯瞭!
Everyday Genius 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載