Life, Liberty & the Pursuit of Happiness

October 3, 2009 - September 5, 2010 | All Day

American Visionary Art Museum
800 Key Highway
Baltimore, MD 21230

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The quest for human rights and the search for personal fulfillment, as proposed in the 1776 American Declaration of Independence, provide the starting point for this upcoming international exhibition curated by Roger Manley. Works by the last surviving descendant of the Tsars of Russia, Iroquois Indians, French Revolutionaries, illegal immigrants, Algerian War veterans, Guantánamo Bay detainees, Holocaust survivors, incarcerated prisoners, African-American civil rights activists and Iraqi doctors are among the 50 visionary artists to be featured. Renaldo Kuhler’s vast imaginary country of Rocaterrania, Tilden Stone’s masterful Furnitures of Secrets, and Duncan Laurie’s Purr Generator (a “happiness machine”) are among the numerous works that will never have been shown publicly before. "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness" is the 15th thematic mega-exhibition produced by the American Visionary Art Museum – America's official national museum for self-taught, intuitive artistry – and runs until September 5, 2010. Regular Admission.

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