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Books on Folk and Outsider Art Collecting Outsider Art can be very rewarding, even more so when you are well informed about the genre. We have listed a few great books on this page that will both delight and enlighten anyone interested in Outsider Art. Please be sure to , we add new books all the time! Attention Publishers: To submit your book for consideration, please send a copy for our review to: William
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Souls Grown Deep: African American Vernacular Art,
Volume 1 $63.00 Almost 600 pages of spectacular art, insightful and intelligent essays, and very high quality printing on very high quality paper. With so many probing essays (Andrew Young, Amiri Baraka, Vincent Harding, Jack Lindsey, Paul Arnett, Howard Dodson, Congressman John Lewis, Maude Wahlman, Babatunde Lawal, Roy Sieber, William Arnett, Maxwell Anderson, William Ferris, et al) and beautiful chapters on so many well known (and lesser known) artists, Souls Grown Deep has put "vernacular" art on the map, front and center. And it's about time.This is the best book we have ever seen relating to self-taught art. The photographs alone are worth twice the price of $63. |
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Souls Grown Deep: African American Vernacular Art,
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Testimony: Vernacular Art of the African-American South: The Ronald and June Shelp Collection
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Jimmy
Lee Sudduth Jimmy Lee Sudduth is one of the elder statesmen of Black folk art in America. A self-taught artist who has lived and worked in Fayette, Alabama, for most of his life, he is comfortably integrated into his West Alabama community. As he once said, "I’m easy to find. I’m in the center of the universe." Sudduth is a gifted painter with remarkable formal skill. He has painted continuously and ecstatically since he was a child, and at ninety-five, he paints that way still. The best of his work reveals an exceptional visual talent coupled with an incomparable delight in the marvelous physical world around him. Jimmy Lee Sudduth is the story of Sudduth’s life and art, with color reproductions of some fifty of his finest paintings. An essay by Susan Mitchell Crawley, associate curator of folk art at the High Museum in Atlanta, Georgia, describes the artist’s subjects, materials, and techniques and captures the essence of his infinite creativity. |
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Art Brut : The Origins of Outsider Art
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the first half of the twentieth century, avant-garde artists in Europe,
keen to break with academic tradition, began looking beyond the accepted
canons of Western art in a search for new sources of inspiration.
"Primitive" art, the drawings of children, the art of the
insane, automatism, and graffiti all opened up new avenues of
experimentation. One of the key figures in this drive to push back the
boundaries of art was leading French artist Jean Dubuffet. At the end of
World War II, Dubuffet became interested in the works being produced by
patients in psychiatric hospitals and by other social outcasts. He made
two fruitful trips to Switzerland, where he discovered Wölfli, Aloïse,
and Müller, now recognized as important exponents of what was later to
become known as "Outsider Art." In 1948, Dubuffet founded the
Campagnie de l'Art Brut in order to extend and document the collections
he had recently begun. In 1976, after various adventures, the Collection
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Coming Home!: Self-Taught Artists, the
Bible, and the American South In the works of many famous self-taught artists, such as Howard Finster and Sister Gertrude Morgan, Biblical themes and imagery abound. How has the Bible inspired these Southern creators? Examining 125 works of art by more than seventy contemporary folk artists, Coming Home! Self-Taught Artists, the Bible, and the American South accompanies a traveling exhibition organized by the Art Museum of the University of Memphis. The exhibition features painters and sculptors of wide acclaim, including Finster, Sister Morgan, William Edmondson, Clementine Hunter, Joe Minter Elijah Pierce, Robert Roberg, William Thomas Thompson, and Myrtice West. In the South, Evangelical Christianity is predominant. Essays in this catalog explore this particular religious influence on the work of Southern self-taught artists. The artwork is considered within the context of contemporary American art and history, literature, and music. Also included are brief essays on thirty-two of the artists along with biographical sketches of each, identifying denominational ties and providing relevant religious information. |
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Contemporary American Folk Art : A
Collector's Guide
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Spirits of the Cloth : Contemporary
African-American Quilts
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Pictured in My Mind : Contemporary American Self-Taught Art from the Collection of Dr. Kurt Gitter and Alice Rae Yelen by Gail Andrews Trechsel (Editor), Roger Cardinal, Lee Kogan, Sus Larsen $55
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Passionate Visions of the
American South : Self-Taught Artists from 1940 to the Present
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Outsider Art of The South
With 375-plus photographs, the book beautifully illustrates the range of each artist's work, with more examples per artist than has been shown before. The book is also an invaluable reference guide, with a source section that lists museums and galleries where the art may be seen and purchased, a retail price guide, a bibliography, and many organizations, publications, shows, and auctions devoted to Southern folk, outsider, and visionary art. |
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Light of the Spirit : Portraits of
Southern Outsider Artists
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Clementine Hunter : American Folk Artist Click Here to Order Clementine Hunter : American Folk Artist |
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Outsider Art: Spontaneous Alternatives
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Self-Taught & Outsider Art: The
Anthony Petullo Collection
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20th Century American Folk, Self Taught, and
Outsider Art
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Brothers in Clay : The Story of
Georgia Folk Pottery
"An exhaustive Study of Georgia's Pottery
Dynamics" -- Southern Living
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Mose T's Slapout Family Album :
Poems
Paintings by Mose Tolliver, the key folk art painter from Alabama, who is one of America's greatest living treasures, inspired this gem of a book of poems by Robert Ely. The 8" 1/4-by 8 1/4" volume, published in Alabama by Black Belt Press, includes a brief introduction by Julian Bond. Twenty of Mose T's best known images are finely illustrated here in color, alongside the witty poems they inspired. Featured in the book are the fanciful inhabitants of the town of Slapout, among them the "Hoodoo Man...who learned his art from Kubla Khan," the "Jick-Jack Girl...who "kicks off her shoes when she begins to feel the blues" and "Mose t" himself, the artist who "paints pictures made with real paint...and many folks find them quaint." --David Ebony, Assistant Managing Editor, Art in America magazine. |
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WONDERS TO BEHOLD:
The Visionary Art of Myrtice West Working in rural Alabama for seven years, Myrtice West painted the entire book of Revelation in thirteen large, vivid paintings. Wests Revelation Series, exhibited in public only twice, is the subject of a new book featuring essays by seventeen renowned scholars and artists, including Ben Appelbaum, Howard "Finster, George Fowler, Miriam Fowler, Norman Girardot, Rebecca Hoffberger, Lee Kogan, Norbert Kox, Leslie Leubbers, Roger Manley, Ann Oppenhimer, Tom Patterson, Charles Rosenak, Gary Schwindler, Charles Reagan Wilson, and Benjamin Wright. The definitive work on Myrtice West and apocalypticism among self-taught artists, Wonders to Behold will appeal to everyone fascinated by visionary and "outsider" art, Southern Christian fundamentalism, and the furor over the new millennium. |
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Howard Finster, Stranger from Another World : Man of
Visions Now on This Earth
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Howard Finster : The Early Years : A Private Portrait
of America's Premier Folk Artist
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The Night Before Christmas [ABRIDGED] 
Classic Clement C. Moore story illustrated by Howard Finster. Vivid paintings bring to life this story of the chance sighting of the world's best-loved gift-giver - Santa Claus. Working in the folk-art tradition, popular 20th century folk artist, Howard Finster offers an original and exciting visual approach to the well-known Yuletide treasure and creates a fascinating union between the traditional and uniquely contemporary.
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The first comprehensive overview of an important genre of American art, Souls Grown Deep explores the visual-arts genius
of the black South. This first work in a multivolume study introduces 40 African-American self-taught artists, who, without
significant formal training, often employ the most unpretentious and unlikely materials. Like blues and jazz artists, they
create powerful statements amplifying the call for freedom and vision. 
Completing the two-volume set, Souls Grown Deep, Vol. 2
takes the visual and historical presentation of the first volume to a
richer level, offering an even broader array of artistic styles and
media. Published in 2000, the first volume explored the diverse
historical roots of the genre and introduced artists whose work recalled
the South of the pre–civil rights era. This sequel brings the movement
into the present, delving into the work of the current generation of
artists who are creating a complex form of art that blurs the boundaries
between folk and contemporary art.
Once categorized as folk but more recently described as outsider or vernacular, the work of essentially self-taught artists has gained in reputation and value in the last half-century. Testimony is the catalog for a traveling exhibition organized by the Schomberg Center for Research in Black Culture that features 27 Southern African American vernacular painters and sculptors whose artwork is part of the Ronald and June Shelp Collection. Some of the featured artists are well known in the field, including Thornton Dial Jr., who appeared in the 2000 Whitney Biennial. Preceding the biographical information and catalog entries, which are accompanied by portraits of the artists and color reproductions of the objects in the exhibition, are a series of essays by leading scholars on this subject. Besides providing social, art historical, and interpretive commentary on the collection, several essays raise intriguing issues regarding the changing views of the concept of folk, outsider, and vernacular art in contemporary criticism. Although sometimes pedantic, this book can be recommended to any library with an interest in art or African American studies.
Seasoned
collectors and recognized experts, the Rosenaks (The Museum of American
Folk Art Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century Folk Art, Abbeville, 1991)
have created this survey of 181 artists grouped in six regions. Entries
on artists include biographical notes, collection tips, and lists of
museums and galleries where one can see and buy their art. Included in
each regional chapter is a selection of color plates and a museum and
gallery guide. Following this main section of the book are essays
concerning the evaluation, buying, and selling of folk art works and
contemporary folk art at auction. This handy travel guide to collecting
contemporary folk art will be of interest to collectors with big and
small pocketbooks alike.
CAROLYN MAZLOOMI DESERVES APPLAUSE!
Gitter and Yelen are collectors who sought out personal contact with
the self-taught, folk, outsider, and naive artists they chose for
inclusion in their focused but extensive private collection of late
20th-century works. This catalog was produced for an exhibition of those
paintings, drawings, and sculptures mounted by the Birmingham Museum of
Art. Minnie Black, John William Day, Clyde Jones, Mose Tolliver, and
Malcah Zeldis are among the 53 artists represented here by 200 works.
Each entry includes varied examples of artistic creations accompanied by
an essay giving detailed biographical, anecdotal, and artistic analysis.
Large public libraries and specialized collections will be well served
by this survey of artists and their art.
Booknews, Inc. , November 1, 1994
Here is an intimate glimpse into the lives and work of thirty-four
self-taught artists, two folk art environments, and one museum, which
tells the tale of a region's fast-disappearing way of life. Kathy Moses'
thoughtful, insightful portraits introduce us to these men and women,
some of whom are well known and some not so well known, but who all are
driven by a compelling need to create. Their stories are told with
warmth, affection, and respect. For many of these artists, this is the
first time they have been presented to a wider audience.
This
spectacular volume features photographs and biographies of twenty-one
acclaimed self-taught artists from the American South. Howard Finster,
Dilmus Hall, Peter Loose, R.A. Miller, Harold Rittenberry Jr., Reverend
John D. Ruth, Willie Tarver, Jimmy Lee Sudduth, Mose Tolliver, James
Harold Jennings, Vollis Simpson, and ten other influential outsider
artists are featured in this book. 
Twentieth-century folk art is receiving increased attention. The Museum
of American Folk Art in New York, for example, is building a permanent
home to acknowledge and celebrate the importance of this artistic style
and heritage. Its collections, while more famous for
pre-twentieth-century art, include the work of several twentieth-century artists. One such artist, Clementine
Hunter, a black woman born in the nineteenth century, is the subject of
this beautiful book. More than 100 color plates demonstrate Hunter's
bold use of color. Of particular interest are excerpts from letters
written by Francois Mignon, a close friend and curator at the plantation where Hunter was raised and worked for
seventy-five years. Mignon's letters to the art collector and dealer
James Register, describe Hunter's evolution into one of America's
important folk artists. All in all, a beautifully published testament to
an American original.
Art
made by people who are not trained as artists can be remarkably vibrant
and evocative, sometimes lovely, sometimes funny, sometimes raw, but
always genuine. Petullo has also avidly collected the art of self-taught
artists, but he focuses on contemporary painters. These 36 so-called
outsiders, mostly European, some mentally ill, have an intuitive drive
to make images and forge vigorous and arresting styles all their own.
Curator Jane Kallir provides historical and cultural context, but her
discussion barely hints at the power of the works themselves. These are
hypnotic compositions of truly startling originality, including the
organic, hyperdetailed drawings of Scottie Wilson and Anna Zemankova,
who said that her works "seemed to draw themselves"; Albert
Louden's dynamic paintings; James Lloyd's pointillist gouaches; Sylvia
Levine's sensitive modernist oils; and the epic drawings of Henry Darger,
to name but a few of these striking, self-realized artists, the equals
of their professional peers. Photographs and brief biographies of the
artists accompany their works.
This book attempts a
comprehensive compilation of previously ungathered sources concerning
self-taught American artists who draw or paint, carve or sculpt, make
assemblages, or create art environments. Profiles of galleries, museums,
and recent exhibitions focusing on contemporary folk and outsider art
include notes on the artists represented. Abstracts cover 459 books and
exhibit catalogs, 645 periodical articles, 362 newspaper articles, and
66 audio or visual materials. Brief biographical sketches are included
for more than 1000 artists. Contacts for national and regional
organizations and a listing of art environments currently open to the
public are given. Completing the work is an index that cross-references
artists featured throughout this directory. Complementing Chuck and Jan
Rosenak's biographical dictionary, Museum of American Folk Art
Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century American Folk Art and Artists
(Abbeville, 1990), this is a unique addition for larger art collections.
Brothers
in Clay tells the story of Georgia's rich Folk Pottery Tradition, the
historical forces that shaped it and the families and individual
artisans that keep it alive. When initially published in 1983, the book
marked the first intensive study of a southern state's pottery heritage
and the first examination of a native Georgia Art Form.
Witty Robert Ely poems inspired by the great Mose T.
Born in Alabama in 1915, Baptist preacher turned
underground artist Howard Finster claims to have had his first vision at
the age of three. Inspired by the word of God, visitations from the
dead, and religious visions, Finster has described himself as a stranger
from another world and a divine messenger. His mission: to save the
world with his art. With such titles as "American Devils Are Very
Friendly" and "Judge No Man by Yourself," Finster's
obsessive paintings, constructions, and sculptures have been exhibited
all over the world, from Los Angeles to SoHo to the Venice Biennale. The
text, transcribed from hundreds of hours of taped interviews, is at once
disturbing and fascinating. 
My father was trying to build us Eden out of plywood,
homemade tools, hard work and an imagination fed by the hand of
God," writes Thelma Finster Bradshaw in her biography of her
father, Howard Finster: The Early Years: A Private Portrait. Bradshaw is
not speaking metaphorically; Finster filled their garden with miniature
churches and mansions adorned with onion domes, turrets and spires, a
gazebo, a playhouse, a tiny museum and religious iconography. Bradshaw's
family-eye view gives the book down-home appeal. Photos and illus. 