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American self-taught : paintings and drawings by outsider artists / Frank Maresca, Roger Ricco, with Lyle Rexer ; with a foreword by Lanford Wilson
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American self-taught : paintings and drawings by outsider artists / Frank Maresca, Roger Ricco, with Lyle Rexer ; with a foreword by Lanford Wilson

by Frank Maresca, Roger Ricco, Lyle Rexer, Lanford Wilson

This survey profiles one hundred self-taught American painters from the twentieth century, including Victor Duena and Henry Darger. The work features 260 full-colour reproductions of their paintings.

Accession 12400 ISBN 0394582128 Publisher Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
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