|                               VISUAL BOOK INDEX | ACTIVE BACKLIST This is the first in-depth study to address the role of the city in the work of French artist Jean Dubuffet (1901–84). Dubuffet promoted the art of children and the mentally ill as Art Brut, >>more Hauser & Wirth Publishers ISBN 9783906915111 US $40.00 CAN $54.00 TRADE Pbk, 8 x 11 in. / 250 pgs / illustrated throughout. Pub Date: 06/26/2018 In stock
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| Fabric of a Nation Edited with text by Pamela A. Parmal, Jennifer M. Swope, Lauren D. Whitley. Preface by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich. A New York Magazine 2021 holiday gift guide pick
A mother stitches a few lines of prayer into a bedcover for her son serving in the Union army during the Civil War. A formerly enslaved African >>more MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston ISBN 9780878468768 US $45.00 CAN $63.00 TRADE Hbk, 9.75 x 10.5 in. / 240 pgs / 120 color. Pub Date: 06/01/2021 In stock
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| Gewächse der Seele Text by Ingrid von Beyme, Astrid Ihle, Claudia Jeschke, Theresia Kiefer, Julia Nebenführ, Gabriele Osswald, et al. Gewächse der Seele explores the recurrence of plants as a motif in outsider art, symbolism and surrealism. Outsider art often features studies of plants, plant creatures, plants with souls and even plant–animal entities, here represented >>more Hatje Cantz ISBN 9783775745345 US $65.00 CAN $90.00 TRADE Hbk, 9.25 x 12 in. / 336 pgs / 340 color. Pub Date: 07/23/2019 Out of stock
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| In the summer of 1989, Joe Minter had a vision from God to create art that would honor the shared experiences of African Americans in this country. From that moment, Minter began building a sprawling >>more Institute 193/Tinwood ISBN 9781732848221 US $30.00 CAN $45.00 TRADE Pbk, 8.5 x 11 in. / 136 pgs / 32 color. Pub Date: 09/17/2019 In stock
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| On the outskirts of Simi Valley, California, stands a cluster of 16 buildings designed and built by American artist Tressa Prisbrey (1896–1988). Between 1956 and 1972, Prisbrey laboriously mined a local landfill for glass bottles >>more Spector Books ISBN 9783959054034 US $20.00 CAN $28.00 TRADE Hbk, 5.5 x 8.25 in. / 64 pgs / 14 color / 14 b&w. Pub Date: 07/13/2021 In stock
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| Niko Pirosmani Edited by Bice Curiger, Klaus Albrecht Schröder, Adrian Ciprian Barsan. Text by Tadao Ando, Friedrich Teja Bach, Adrian Ciprian Barsan, Gottfried Boehm, Bice Curiger, Mariam Dvali, Régis Gayraud, David Lordkipanidze. The Georgian “naive” painter Niko Pirosmani, sometimes known as Nikala (1862–1918), is long overdue for rediscovery. Today, this autodidact, who painted his pictures of animals and people for inns and pubs, is admired as a >>more Hatje Cantz ISBN 9783775744751 US $65.00 CAN $90.00 TRADE Hbk, 11.25 x 9.5 in. / 220 pgs / 130 color. Pub Date: 02/19/2019 Out of stock
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| Singular Spaces Text by Jo Farb Hernández, Roger Cardinal, Laurent Danchin. Published by leading outsider art imprint Raw Vision, Singular Spaces is a groundbreaking survey of art environments created by self-taught artists from across Spain. The book introduces and examines 45 artists and their idiosyncratic sculptures, >>more Raw Vision ISBN 9780615785653 US $80.00 CAN $107.50 TRADE Hbk, 9.5 x 11.5 in. / 584 pgs / 1,306 color / DVD (NTSC). Pub Date: 11/30/2013 In stock
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| The Alternative Guide to the Universe Text by Roger Cardinal, Rick Moody, Mark Pilkington, Valerie Rousseau, Ralph Rugoff, Margaret Wertheim, et al. The Alternative Guide to the Universe surveys work that creates unexpected possibilities in art, science and architecture; possibilities so profound that they suggest an alternate reality. This densely illustrated volume features self-taught architects and artists, >>more Hayward Gallery Publishing ISBN 9781853323164 US $35.00 CAN $47.50 TRADE Hbk, 8.5 x 11 in. / 192 pgs / illustrated throughout. Pub Date: 09/30/2013 Out of stock
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| Originally established at the request of Winston Churchill in the aftermath of World War II, the British Ministry of Defence’s UFO Desk operated for more than 60 years, collating mysterious sightings and records of strange >>more Four Corners Books ISBN 9781909829091 US $25.00 CAN $34.50 TRADE Hbk, 6.25 x 8.75 in. / 128 pgs / 34 color / 24 b&w. Pub Date: 02/27/2018 Out of stock
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| Walks to the Paradise Garden is the last unpublished manuscript of the late American poet, photographer, publisher, Black Mountain alumnus and bon viveur Jonathan Williams (1929–2008). This 352-page book chronicles Williams' road trips across the >>more Institute 193 ISBN 9781732848207 US $45.00 CAN $55.00 TRADE Hbk, 6.5 x 9.25 in. / 352 pgs / 100 color / 80 b&w. Pub Date: 04/23/2019 In stock
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|         VISUAL BOOK INDEX | OUT OF PRINT Enia's World: The Art Of Eugenie Alter Propp Edited and with an Introduction by Sharon Gold. Essays by Lee Kogan and Lori Waxman. Eugenie Alter Propp is a self-taught New York artist who has been working in collage and found-object assemblage for the past 25 years, but only recently has her art been seen by the public in >>more Jandam Press ISBN 9780615126098 US $35.00 CAN $40.00 TRADE Clothbound, 9 x 12 in. / 144 pgs / 144 color. Pub Date: 02/15/2005 Not available
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| Sound and Fury: The Art of Henry Darger Foreword by Andrew Edlin. Text by Edward M. Gomez. Translated by Valérie Rousseau. When the reclusive American janitor Henry Darger died in 1973, he left behind an unprecedented body of drawings, scroll-like watercolors and a 15,000 page novel called The Story of the Vivian Girls, in What Is >>more Andrew Edlin Gallery ISBN 9780977878314 US $45.00 CAN $55.00 TRADE Paperback, 13 x 9 in. / 80 pgs / 63 color / 1 b&w. Pub Date: 07/01/2008 Not available
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| The Drawings of the Electric Pencil Text by Lyle Rexer. Around the year 1910, a patient at State Lunatic Asylum No. 3 in Nevada, Missouri, who referred to himself as The Electric Pencil, executed 280 drawings in ink, pencil, crayon and colored pencil. These beautiful >>more Electric Pencil Press ISBN 9780578068329 US $59.95 CAN $70.00 TRADE Hbk, 12.5 x 8.5 in. / 160 pgs / illustrated throughout. Pub Date: 03/31/2011 Not available
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| World Transformers Edited by Martina Weinhart, Max Hollein. Text by Daniel Baumann, Christiane Cuticchio, Michael Bonesteel. The realm of outsider art provides for the untrained artist a haven from the art industry, populated as it is by those too bizarre to function within official culture. The fabulous universes depicted in Henry >>more Hatje Cantz ISBN 9783775726863 US $60.00 CAN $70.00 TRADE Hbk, 9.5 x 11.75 in. / 256 pgs / 159 color / 28 b&w. Pub Date: 02/28/2011 Not available
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