
A New Take on “Self-Taught” Artists
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William Dmonson's Black Folk Art Exhibition
In the 19 eighties was the black folkart exhibition, which ended up being sort of the start the revival of william dmonson's work. And is yet s a sid sidelining race in a way, despite the fact that it in fact, hilates, he the racial difference exactly. But then, in an interesting way, what it also does to the definition of folk as it sort of polls it from that original ib i guess, from the 19 thirties,. In terms of being connected to a tradition and communal practice, to linking it to the artists in the exhibition who all had very varied practices, a and very a unique aesthetics and a individual approaches
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