Full Description
By focusing on children and adults with disabilities, each contributor offers critical research which challenges the non-transferable divide between us and them , encouraging art teachers, therapists, critics, and general readers alike to uncover their biases regarding the nature of art and education.
Contents
1. The Messages of Linda Persson; Roger Cardinal 2. Working with the Young Outsider Artist: Appropriation, Elaboration, and Building Self-Narrative; David Henley 3. How Do You Get to Prospect Avenue?; Tim Rollins 4. Young and Disabled in Harlem: Making Art Like It Matters; Alice Wexler 5. The Art of Living and Dying: Linda Montano; Linda Weintraub and Alice Wexler 6. Truth, Goodness, and Beautiful Art: Set Free in the Penitentiary; Phyllis Kornfeld 7. Following the Siren's Song: Scott Harrison and the Carousel of Happiness; Doug Blandy and Michael Franklin 8. Digital Ethnography: Artists Speak from Virtual Ability Island in Second Life; Mary Stokrocki, Alice Wexler, and L. S. Krecker 9. Outside the Outside: In the Realms of the Real (Hogancamp, Johnston, and Darger); Jan Jagodzinski
