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Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Create and Be Recognized is the first survey of a compelling, always surprising art form -- outsider photography. Presented here is the work of seventeen largely self-taught artists who have used photography or photographic elements in their creations ...-publisher description.
Author
Series
Joe and Betty Moore Texas art volume Number 20
Publisher
Texas A&M University Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
When the art world has paid attention to makers from outside the cultural establishment, including so-called outsider and self-taught artists, it has generally been within limiting categories. Yet these artists, including many women, people with disabilities, and people of color, have had a transformative influence on the history of modern art. Responding to growing interest in these artists, this book offers a nuanced history of their work and how...
Publisher
Wellspring
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Henry Darger, an elderly recluse, spent his childhood in an Illinois asylum for feeble-minded children and his adulthood working as a janitor. He lived a quiet, nearly solitary existence, but his imaginary life was exciting, colorful and sexually provocative. When he died in Chicago in 1973, his landlady discovered in his room 300 paintings, some over 10 feet long, and a 15,000 page illustrated novel (The realms of the unreal), which told the epic...
Author
Publisher
Times Square Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"The world's first book on the Greatest Spirit Artists and Medium Painters of all Time. Published by Times Square Press and the American Federation of Certified Psychics and Mediums, New York. Everything you need to know about psychic artists, their world, their spirit portraits, their techniques, their styles, and how they communicate with the Spirit world."--Publisher's description.
Author
Publisher
Princeton Architectural Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"This is the story of Edward Deeds, a man who spent his entire adult life in mental institutions. Deeds's subtle and wonderfully imaginative drawings are populated with a remarkable cast of characters. His subjects include striking portraits, landscapes and architecture, fanciful boats, trains, and cars, birds and animals--a meticulous rendering of Deeds's inner world and his poignant tribute to a faded, genteel past. Rescued from a trash heap by...
13) Henry Darger
Publisher
Prestel
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Self-taught and working in isolation until his death in 1973, Henry Darger realized an elaborate fantasy world of remarkable beauty and strangeness through hundreds of paintings and an epic written narrative...In the volume's introductory essay, Klaus Biesenbach examines the radical originality of Darger's art, including his use of collage, incorporation of religious themes and iconography, and frequent juxtaposition of innocence with violence. An...
Author
Publisher
National Gallery of Art
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Some 250 works explore three distinct periods in American history when mainstream and outlier artists intersected, ushering in new paradigms based on inclusion, integration, and assimilation. The exhibition aligns work by such diverse artists as Charles Sheeler, Christina Ramberg, and Matt Mullican with both historic folk art and works by self-taught artists ranging from Horace Pippin to Janet Sobel and Joseph Yoakum. It also examines a recent influx...