The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) awarded this book a medal for creativity in 2015, for authors of distinguished works in the field of humanist social sciences. During my research I conducted 65 interviews with the painters or their family members, among whom 63 are included in the representative list Of Slovak naive painters from Serbia.
Maľované príbehy z Kovačice obdivujú ľudia po celom svete. Na pestrej mape svetového naivného umenia má toto malebné mestečko postavenie ozajstnej metropoly. Insitné umenie z Kovačice je výnimočné najmä svojou výraznou lokálnou identitou. U umelcov prevláda silný pocit spolupatričnosti k mestu, v ktorom žijú.