“Self-Taught Genius: Treasures from the American Folk Art Museum”
Phrenological Head, Asa Ames, 1850, paint on wood
“Self-Taught Genius considers the shifting implications of a self-taught ideology in the United States, from a widely endorsed and deeply entrenched movement of self-education, to its current use to describe artists creating outside traditional frames of reference and canonical art history.”
“Self-Taught Genius: Treasures from the American Folk Art Museum”
New Orleans Museum of Art / NOMA
One Collins C. Diboll Circle, City Park, New Orleans, Louisiana
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