Art with a Difference : Looking at Difficult

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.

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

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Art with a Difference : Looking at Difficult and Unfamiliar Art

Summary

Table of Contents

Supplemental Materials

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