Sacred and profane : voice and vision in Southern self-taught art
"Sacred and Profane: Voice and Vision in Southern Self-Taught Art presents historical and cultural analyses that focus on the contexts of the art's creation, as well as on the lives and works of representative artists. The essays here also address the reception of this art by the mainstream art world."--Jacket
Print Book, English, 2007
University Press of Mississippi, Jackson, 2007
xxii, 286 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
9781578069163, 1578069165
68786785
Introduction / Carol Crown and Charles Russell
Self-taught art, the Bible, and southern creativity / Charles Reagan Wilson
Sacred spaces and mythmaking: a sociological perspective on southern environmental art / Frédéric Allamel
More than meets the eye: visions of the sacred in southern self-taught art / Carol Crown
The music of self-taught artist and evangelist Anderson Johnson / Ann Oppenheimer
Lacrimae rerum: Eddie Owens Martin's Pasaquan / Dorothy M. Joiner
George Andrews / Benny Andrews
Nellie Mae Rowe: multiple contexts, multiple meanings / Lee Kogan
A curious collaboration: Clementine Hunter's African house murals / Jessica Dallow
Clementine Hunter: chronicler of African American Catholicism / Cheryl Rivers
"It's about ideas": the art of Thornton Dial / Charles Russell
Reinventing Gee's bend quilts in the name of art / Sally Anne Duncan
Words and music: seeing Traylor in context / Susan M. Crawley
Bil Traylor and the construction of outsider objectivity / Jennifer P. Borum