Robert Pleshar <rpleshar@midway.uchicago.edu> wrote:

Maybe a better example would be the work of Henry Darger? I don't know
too much about him, but he seems to me to be a more likely candidate to be
making art for himself.

 

Or Emily Dickinson.

 

Interesting questions about the cultural capital value of art. Is it only art if someone buys it? (Or publishes it, or records it . . .) Come on.

c