Gatecrashers: The Rise of the Self-Taught Artist in America (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780520303423)

After World War I, artists without formal training "crashed the gates" of major museums in the United States, diversifying the art world across lines of race, ethnicity, class, ability, and gender. At the center of this fundamental reevaluation of who could be an artist in America were John Kane, Horace Pippin, and Anna Mary Robertson "Grandma" Moses. The stories of these three artists not only intertwine with the major critical debates of their period but also prefigure the call for inclusion in representations of American art today. In Gatecrashers, Katherine Jentleson offers a valuable corrective to the history of twentieth-century art by expanding narratives of interwar American modernism and providing an origin story for contemporary fascination with self-taught artists.

Author: Katherine Jentleson
ISBN-10: 0520303423
ISBN-13: 9780520303423
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 04/07/2020
Pages: 264
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.55lbs
Size: 10.30h x 8.30w x 0.70d