Self-Taught Artist Thornton Dial

The Art of Alabama, 2004
In many parts of the rural South, it's still possible to see "yardshows" on the property of modest homes — decorative assemblages of found materials put together in imaginative ways. Here Dial, whose work found inspiration in folk-art assemblages, pairs one of his own making with a painted concrete garden statue of the mythical Greek figure Pandora to create a face-off between conventional ideas about "high" and "low" art.

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