Outsider Art, Social Class + the Weak Avant-Garde (HM NYC)

Adam Turl April 5, 2019

Video produced for a Red Wedge Magazine panel at Historical Materialism New York 2019

Adam Turl’s presentation on outsider art, social class, and institutional art, recorded for the 2019 Historical Materialism conference in New York City.

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