Gatecrashers

"Interweaving histories of art-world power brokers with portraits of three exceptionally driven artists, Gatecrashers offers a refreshingly expansive view of twentieth-century folk art. From this archivally rich, story-packed, and highly ethical study, the self-taught artist emerges--not at the margins, but at the very heart of modern American culture."--Jennifer Jane Marshall, author of Machine Art, 1934 " Gatecrashers is a compulsively readable book. Katherine Jentleson brilliantly argues for the agency of her subjects both individually as makers negotiating the institutions of art and collectively as catalysts for pluralism, effectively democratizing American artistic identity in the interwar period . "--Suzanne Hudson, Associate Professor of Art History and Fine Arts, University of Southern California