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At The Spiritual Grassroots: An Analysis Of Visionary Art & Artists, Ann Taft
At The Spiritual Grassroots: An Analysis Of Visionary Art & Artists, Ann Taft
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
In this thesis I focus on an art form alternately described as "naive," "visionary," "environmental," "singular," "individual," or "grassroots." Not easily placed within established academic or popular art categories, such art usually lands by default in the folk art pile and is quickly cast to the peripheries of that genre. In this thesis, I am not concerned with inventing another label for these artists and their work. Instead, I explore the possibility that visionary art may be a separate genre, but one to which folklore analysis may usefully be brought to bear.
Chapter One is a historical and bibliographical analysis …