This book focuses on borderline cases and questions-on actions, transactions, and transitions at the margins of art worlds. It reveals patterns of interaction and evaluation strikingly reminiscent of those found in the fine art mainstream, looking at art worlds organized around marginal media.

Larry Gross is Sol Worth Professor of Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Contested Closets: The Politics and Ethics of Outing and editor of Image Ethics: The Moral Rights of Subjects in Photographs, Film and Television, and On the Margins of Art Worlds.James D. Woods was assistant professor of communications at the College of Staten Island, CUNY, and author of The Corporate Closet: The Professional Lives of Gay Men in America.

Preface -- 1 Art and Artists on the Margins -- LARRY GROSS -- 2 Negotiating the Critical Discourse: The Armory Show Revisited/MOIRA MCLOUGHLIN -- 3 Public Art and Cultural Authority/RUTH SLAVIN -- 4 Artists Entering the Marketplace: Pricing New Art/KRYSTYNA WARCHOL -- 5 "Woman Artist": Between Myth and Stereofype/BETTE J. KAUFFMAN -- 6 From East to West Polish Artists in the New York Art World/KRYSTYNA WARCHOL -- 7 Directorial Intention and Persona in Film School/USA HENDERSON -- 8 "A Photograph Is Not a Picture": Distinguishing Anarchy from/Art in the Late Nineteenth Century/PAMELA INGLESBY -- 9 Between Art and Industry: Amateur Photography andMiddlebrow Culture/MICHAEL GRIFFIN -- 10 Trading Places in the Art World: The Reputations of/Dorothea Lange and Walker Evans/CATHERINE L. PRESTON -- 11 Graffiti as Public and Private Art/ROBERT S. DREW -- 12 Animation Art: The Fine Art of Selling Collectibles/WILLIAM MIKULAK -- 13 Native American Art and Artists in Visual Arts Documentaries/from 1973 to 1991/STEVEN LEUTHOLD -- About the Book and Editor -- About the Contributors.