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Finster’s Finger: The Trans-Generational Art of Howard Finster
- Mosaic: an interdisciplinary critical journal
- Mosaic, an interdisciplinary critical journal
- Volume 53, Number 1, March 2020
- pp. 19-38
- 10.1353/mos.2020.0005
- Article
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Abstract:
Drawing on Jean Laplanche’s theory of seduction and Thelma Finster Bradshaw’s biography of her father, this essay reads key scenes in folk artist Howard Finster’s life and art to show that they stage his identity through trans-generational transferential relationships.