The Last Folk Hero: A True Story of Race and Art, Power and Profit

Description: The lives and works of blue-collar, African American artists Thornton Dial and Lonnie Holley are documented in this true story of outsider art, ego, exploitation, and race. Following the interaction between Dial, an illiterate factory worker with creative genius, his comrade-in-arts Holley, and Bill Arnett, a wealthy, white, and infamous art patron, this account details the obsessions and exploitation found in the soap-opera world of modern art. Congressmen, business tycoons, movie stars, academics, and the cultural elite all play roles in a story where the distinction between hero and villain evaporate amid the twisted motivations of the art market.

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Location: Mableton, Georgia

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Binding: Hardcover

Weight: 1 lbs

Product Group: Book

IsTextBook: No

Book Title: Last Folk Hero : a True Story of Race and Art, Power and Profit

Item Length: 9.2in.

Item Height: 1.4in.

Item Width: 6.4in.

Author: Andrew Dietz

Format: Hardcover

Language: English

Topic: American / African American, History / Contemporary (1945-), Artists, Architects, Photographers

Publisher: Ellis Lane Press

Publication Year: 2006

Genre: Biography & Autobiography, Art

Item Weight: 24.5 Oz

Number of Pages: 377 Pages