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Review title: Fun and Insight
Product review: This is a humorous book, but what surprised me about it was the number of topics discussed that are now part of academic curricula, particularly vernacular technology and outsider art. There are entire museums devoted to the latter, and this book offers some insight into artists known to these museums, as well as ordinary people who don't think of themselves as artists. It also shows how people use what's at hand to create articles that are practical or aesthetically pleasing to them (vernacular technology, as the academics call it). And it does this with good humor; anyone who thinks the authors are out to embarrass their subjects isn't reading the book closely. On the contrary, the authors seem to have respect and sometimes admiration for their interviewees' nonconformist way of life. It's not a 'serious" book, but it's a worthwhile and amusing look at a part of America that doesn't always receive gentle attention.
