'Great and Mighty Things' - Outsider Art From the Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz Collection

Informationen zum Autor Ann Percy is curator of drawings at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Cara Zimmerman is executive director of the Foundation for Self-Taught Artists in Philadelphia. Klappentext "Published on the occasion of the exhibition Great and Mighty Things: Outsider Art from the Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz Collection, Philadelphia Museum of Art, March 3-June 9, 2013"--T.p. verso. "an exceptional catalog." --Roberta Smith, "New York Times"--Roberta Smith"New York Times" (04/18/2013) The contemporary art world has been challenged and invigorated by outsider art - works by self-taught practitioners who, by definition, have little to do with mainstream art production, but are nonetheless actively engaged with the visual culture of their time and place. This book explores the collection of Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz.

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• Authors: Ann Percy, Ann Zimmerman Percy, Percy Ann
• Assisted by: Ann Percy (Editor), Percy Ann (Editor), Cara Zimmerman (Editor), Zimmerman Cara (Editor)
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.03.2013
• EAN: 9780300191752
• ISBN: 978-0-300-19175-2
• No. of pages: 288
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; USA, ART / History / Contemporary (1945-), ART / American / General, ART / Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General, History of Art, Exhibition catalogues & specific collections, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, United States of America, USA, Art & design styles: from c 1960, Exhibition catalogues and specific collections