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From: The Village Voice | Date: December 1, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

A Holiday Guide to Coffee-Table Books With a Jagged Edge

Once upon a time, coffee-table books signified luxury, upward mobility, things of quality and distinction. Buying one of those suckers conferred a sense of your own good taste. It was only a matter of time before publishers began catering to the downwardly aspirational, offering cheap (well, not that cheap) voyages into other people's fringe or freaky existences.

Take Create and Be Recognized (Chronicle, $40), the first major study of photography in outsider art. The title phrase was the motto of Eugene von Bruenchenhein, a baker and ...

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