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What is vernacular art? A visual artist explains

  • Written by Beauvais Lyons, Chancellor’s Professor of Art, University of Tennessee
What is vernacular art? A visual artist explainsHenry Darger worked as a hospital custodian. After his death in 1973, hundreds of his illustrations were discovered.Brooklyn Taxidermy/flickr, CC BY

Vernacular art is a genre of visual art made by artists who are usually self-taught. They tend to work outside of art academies and commercial galleries, which have traditionally been the purview of...

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