Life, Liberty & the Pursuit of Happiness
03/10/2010
Brought to you by: American Visionary Art Museum
American Visionary Art Museum

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 international exhibition curated by Roger Manley (curator of AVAM's mega-popular inaugural exhibition "Tree of Life.") 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 80 visionary...