The passion for outsider, naïve, primitive, folk, and self-taught art—none of the traditional adjectives really captures its character—is one of the oldest romances in modern culture. For a ...

The definition of folk art has evolved over the years. At first, in the late 19th century, it meant distinguishable crafts produced by a particular country or culture – Mexican, Pennsylvania Dutch.

What comes to mind when you think of folk art? Maybe "country," or "old" or "unusual." Folk art can be from the past or the present. It's not taught in universities. As with most artists, the work ...

"Jimmie Lee Sudduth has the same joy in each stroke that he had years ago," says Woodie Long of his friend and fellow painter. "That's the sign of a true folk artist." Brian Noyes "Kentuck shows us ...

The capstone of official festivities commemorating Emperor Franz Josef's sixtieth jubilee, the 1908 Kaiserhuldigungsfestzug was a costumed historical spectacle informed by ‘living museum’ ethnographic ...

THE anthropologist, when confronted with some of the more extreme pronouncements of æsthetic judgment on the primitive artist, was at one time perhaps a little too apt to regard them as unwarranted ...

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It has been a long time since the first startling wave of African art made its way to Europe and caused a sensation among the ranks of painters and sculptors. Picasso, under the influence of this ...