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Art with a difference : looking at difficult and unfarmiliar art / Leonard Diepeveen.

By: Diepeveen, Leonard, 1959-.
Contributor(s): Van Laar, Timothy.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Mountain View, CA ; London : Mayfield Publishing, 2001Description: xii, 132 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 1559349301.Subject(s): Art appreciation -- Study and teaching (Higher)DDC classification: 701.18

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Designed as a supplementary text for beginning art courses, this brief, inexpensive text introduces issues that are typically overlooked in standard art survey texts, such as the role of the museum in creating the canon, ways to understand art of other cultures and outsider art, and the difficulty many beginners have in understanding art, especially contemporary art.

Includes index..

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Introduction
  • 1 Art Museums: Organizers of Culture
  • 2 Western Art and Other Cultures: Encountering Difference
  • 3 Outsider Art: Encountering Difference Within
  • 4 Art and Difficulty: Foucault's Nightmare