Dilettante Press

Dilettante Press is an independent book publisher, co-founded by Jodi Wille, Nick Rubenstein, and Steven Nalepa in 1995. Dilettante is a publishing house dedicated to “challeng[ing] traditional notions of art and culture,” focusing its efforts on featuring visionary, outsider, vernacular art in books.

Dilettante only published three titles, but "their impact was considerable."^[1] Dilettante’s first book, The End Is Near! Visions of Apocalypse, Millennium and Utopia, won the Benjamin Franklin Award for Best First Book.^[2] Their subsequent titles included: Extreme Canvas: Hand-Painted Movie Posters from Ghana. By Ernie Wolfe, III and Starstruck: Photographs from a Fan by Gary Lee Boas,^[2] selected by Artforum Magazine as "Best of 2000".^{[verification needed]}

Jodi Wille went on to co-found Process Media in 2005 with husband Adam Parfrey of Feral House. Process Media now distributes the Dilettante titles.

References

1. ^ Doug Harvey (2005-06-02). "Feral Child". LA Weekly. http://www.laweekly.com/art+books/wls/feral-child/595//. Retrieved 2008-05-29. 
2. ^ ^{a b} Kristin Fiore (1999-06-23). "The Outsiders". LA Weekly. http://www.laweekly.com/art+books/art/the-outsiders/6535//. Retrieved 2008-05-29. 

External links

• Dilettante Press (via the Internet Archive Wayback Machine, actual website is domain parked)
• Process Media
• LA Weekly Article