The Voice of the Culture of Silent Majority: Naive Art and Literature

Abstract

The article examines the museum interpretation of the creativity of artists representing the ‘naive art’ – an art differing from the academic canons. Creativity of naive artists can be seen as a manifestation of identity: cultural, ethnic, gender, and social one.


 


 


Keywords: naive art, cultural memory, life illusion, ‘folk’ ethnography, museum interpretation

References
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