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This book was born with the objective of expanding the punctual bibliography about Brazilian popular art presenting the art produced by self-taught artists through the contemporary eye of some of Brazil's most respected art critics and artists. "Being anti or non-academic artists, escaping from the rules and from the dominant standards, outsider artists often exert, upon the modern art of the 20th century, an influence almost as strong as that of non-European cultures, especially those from Africa and Oceania." --Page 309.