Public Lecture | Lynne Cooke – Contesting Boundaries: Outliers and American Vanguard Art | University of Melbourne
Professor Lynne Cooke, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC Contesting Boundaries: Outliers and American Vanguard Art Modernist art history routinely situates the work of self-taught artists, along with that of various other unschooled creators — so-called “primitives,” visionaries, children and the insane — on the margins, a source and stimulus to the avant-gardes who plundered it at will. In recent years, challenges to that canonical model of a privileged center and dependent periphery have come from many quarters. By examining key intersections between credentialed American artists and their disenfranchised peers over the past century, this lecture will bring into focus […]