Self-Taught

You probably don't want any riffraff in such company, but American Self-Taught: Paintings and Drawings by Outsider Artists by Frank Maresca and Roger Ricco (Knopf $75), a well-produced collection of inspired crankery, might do for down in the rec room -- and be more fun than some of the stiffs upstairs.

All I Want For Christmas... 2008

Burmese Self-Taught - Burmese by R.f. st.a. St. john

All the News That Fits--In 500 Words or a Graphic 2008

Yelen curated the exhibitions and authored the related catalogs for Passionate Visions of the American South: Self-Taught Artists from 1940 to the Present and Zenga: Brushstrokes of Enlightenment.

Alice Yelen. Jewish Women's Archive 2006

"Esperanto Self-Taught," with pleasure and thanks.

Esperanto Self-Taught with Phonetic Pronunciation William W. Mann

While marking time he purchased copies of "French Self-Taught" and

Never-Fail Blake Arthur Stringer 1912

"Italian Self-Taught," hoping to school himself in a speaking knowledge of these two tongues.

Never-Fail Blake Arthur Stringer 1912

A year or so ago I made a brief visit to Russia with a "Russian Self-Taught" in my pocket.

What is Coming? 1906

"_B.ography of Self-Taught Men_," by Professor B.B. Edwards.

The Bobbin Boy or, How Nat Got His learning 1859

He wasn't included in the celebrated 1998 survey "Self-Taught Artists of the Twentieth Century: An American Anthology."

Chicago Reader 2010

Theodore A. Edison's Telegraphy Self-Taught shows a return of "accept my compliments."

Planet MYOSS 2010