"folk art" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1995, Alison Hilton, Russian Folk Art, Indiana University Press, page 3",
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          "text": "Folk art is often produced by anonymous and formally untrained consumers for their own or barter use. It might later, like brothel-born jazz, be accorded the status of a fine art by subsequent audiences who assign greater complexities to its structure.",
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