• Exploring meaning and authenticity in folk art and contemporary illustration
(may be edited/changed slightly)
What academic/written sources could I use?
• The Unsophisticated Arts - Barbara Jones
(Little Toller Books, Dorset, 2013)
• British Folk Art - Ruth Kenny, Jeff McMillan, Martin Myrone
(Tate Publishing, London, 2014)
• Illustration: A Theoretical and Contextual Perspective - Alan Male
(AVA Publishing, 2007)
• Where is the content? Where is the comment? - Lawrence Zeegen
Creative Review, 2012 (link)
• Jean Dubuffet - Laurent Danchin
Editions Pierre Terrail, Paris 2001
What arguments/points do I want to put across?
• Art that comes from personal stories or experiences is authentic. Authenticity and its relation to the arts and meaning in art (low vs high art - the former being arguably more rich in value)
• Narrative in traditional art, crafts, folk art, and narrative in illustration today.
• Relate to contemporary illustration - that which communicates something - a story, a message, an idea or theme, is much more effective or successful than the surface level.
• Meaning versus aesthetic (accuracy does not equal value/better)
• Content over Aesthetic > Visual aesthetics and their relation to content and meaning
What practitioners can I reference?
• Hannah Waldron
• Grayson Perry
• Jonny Hannah
How does it all link together?
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