Outsider Art: questions, questions
Cathy Cullis
Outsider Art, Art Brut, Neuve Invention, etc..
I am particularly interested in the work of Madge Gill,
Malcolm McKesson, Henry Darger, Adolf Wolfli, to name a few.
Did anyone out there go to the Parallel Visions exhibition 1993 in Los
Angeles?
Do you read Raw Vision international journal? I would be interested to
know if any other, similar publications exist in the U.S.
What are your views on art therapists encouraging psychiatric patients
to produce works that will late gain gallery status?
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Cathy C.
Christopher Colby
outsider art. They have a home page and a newsletter. http://outsider.art.
org/
Folk Art magazine also has quite a bit about outsider art these days. It is
published by the American Folk Art Musuem. I do read and enjoy Raw Vision.
We collect lesser known artists than you mention. John MacGegor has a book
out soon about Henry Darger. He has previously written about Dwight Mackintosh.
I saw them both the other day at the Creative Growth Art Center in Oakland.
John has an interview in the latest Intuit newsletter. I think it's on their
Web site. Talk to you later.
Chris Colby
WhittleGFG
Chris,
We are a gallery in Madison, WI that specializes in
International and National Folk and Outsider art. Thanks
for bringing a good organization and some good publi-
cations to everyones attention. We also shelve a
number of books on folk and outsider art and thought
that you may have an interest. These are not store
prices but those for the newsgroup. Hope to hear from
you in the future and stop by Glaeve Gallery, 514 State
St., Madison, WI . Ask for Gerry.
FOR SALE FOLK-OUTSIDER BOOKS
items marked *, take 10% off publishers price, other titles are already
discounted or are net because rare and/or out of print etc.
THE ARTIST OUTSIDER, Creativity and the Boundaries of Culture, Michael
Hall
and Eugene Metcalf, editors. Smithsonian Institution Press, 1994,
{An Interesting series of essays that tackle definitions and relationships
to the larger art world}. 350 pgs. paper $24.95,* cloth $55.00. *
AFRICAN-AMERICAN GARDENS AND YARDS IN THE RURAL SOUTH, Richard Westmacott,
Univ. of Tennessee Press, 1992, 198 pgs., paper, new, $29.95 *
AFRO AMERICAN TRADITION IN DECORATIVE ARTS, Vlach, paper $19.95 *
AMERICAN FOLK ART OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, Jay Johnson and William
Ketchum, Rizzoli Pub., $25.00 *
AMERICAN FOLK ART CANES, G. Meyer, hard, $65.00 net
AMERICAN PRIMITIVE PAINTING, Jean Lipman, Dover reprint, paper, $9.95*
AMERICAN SELF-TAUGHT: PAINTINGS AND DRAWINGS BY OUTSIDER ARTISTS, Frank
Maresca & Roger Ricco, Knopf Publ. 1993, 298 pgs., hard
$75.00*
BY SOUTHERN HANDS, Jan Arnow, Oxmoor House, hard, have multiple copies,
most have slight damage to dust jackets or some shelf wear.,
Published at $35.00 Special
Price $20.00
CARVED IN WOOD: FOLK SCULPTURE IN THE OZARKS, Van Horn, paper, $30.00 net
CIRCLES OF TRADITION, Folk Arts in Minnesota, Minnesota Historical
Society, paper, multiple copies, some have shelf wear,
$18.00 *
DISCOVERING AMERICAN FOLK ART, Schaffner, Abrams Pub.,
$25.00 *
DISCOVERING ELLIS RULEY: THE STORY OF AN AMERICAN OUTSIDER ARTIST,
GlennRobert Smith, Robert Kenner, Crown Publ. 1993, 108 pgs.,hard
$30.00 *
EARL CUNNINGHAM; PAINTING AND AMERICAN EDEN, Robert Hobbs, Abrams Publ.
1994, 144 pgs., hard, new$39.95 *
FROM HARDANDER TO HARLEYS A SURVEY OF WISCONSIN FOLK ART, "Wisconsin
FolkArt: Continuing a Cultural Heritage" Teske, Robert; John
Michael Koehler Arts Center, 1987, paper, shelf wear, $30.00
HOWARD FINSTER, MAN OF VISIONS, Finster, Peachtree Pub., paper,
$14.00 *
LOOKING FOR LEONARDO, Naive Objects found in America by Bates and Isabele
Lowery. Univ. of Iowa Press, 117 pgs., paper,$24.00
MIXED BLESSINGS, New Art in a MultiCultural America, Lippard, Lucy;
Pantheon Pub., paper,
Published at $24.95 special at $16.00
MINNIE EVANS:ARTIST, Charles M. Lovell, Wellington Gray Gallery, East
Carolina Univ., 1993, 72 pgs.,$24.50
ONCE UPON AN ISLE; The Story of Fishing Families on Isle Royale, Howard
Sivertson. Paintings and stories of the fishing families of the l930's
and 40's. Wisconsin Folk Museum Publ., 111 pgs., award winning
book by our local folk museum, new, hard $20.95 *
also prints available of book plates, quantity discounts to storekeepers,
Ask)
O, APPALACHIA, Artists of the Southern Mountains, Ramona and Millard
Lampell, Stewart & Tabori, Chang Pub., (a collection sold recently
at auction) published at $50.00 *, have copy no dust jacket for
$35.00
PASSING TIME AND TRADITIONS, Folk art survey of Iowa, Steven Ohrn,
Iowa State U. Press, paper, multiple copies, shelf wear,
$14.00 net
PASSIONATE VISIONS, of the American South, Alice Rae Yelen,
$35.00 net
RAISED IN CLAY, The Southern Pottery Tradition, Nancy Sweezy,
Smithsonian, paper, shelf wear,
$24.00
REVELATIONS, Alabama's Visionary Folk Artists, Kathy Kemp with Photos
by Keith Boyer,Includes work by Thornton Dial, Charlie and Annie Lucas,
Lonnie Holley, Mose Tolliver, Sybil Gibson, Howard Finster, Rev. Ben-
jamin Perkins, Gertrude Morgan and others. Some of the artists here we
associate with other states but are claimed by Alabama as native sons
and daughters. Crane Hill Publishers. 224 pgs. Hardcover $60.00 *
ROSEMALING IN THE UPPER MIDWEST, Philip Martin, Wisconsin Folk Museum,
Color photos of both the art and the artists, 94 pgs., paper
$21.50 *
SACRED SPACES AND OTHER PLACES, A Guide to Grottos and Sculptural
Environments in the Upper Midwest, Lisa Stone and Jim Zanzi published by
the
School of the Art Institute of Chicago Press. 184 pages with black and
white photos and maps to get you around. Of special interest to me are
the histories of the Dickeyville Grotto and the Fred Smith concrete park
in Phillips, WI and the photos of Nick Engelbert and his environment
outside nearby Hollandale, WI. By the way this later site has been
purchased by the Kohler Foundation and is presently undergoing recon-
struction and renovation. Cloth $28.50, Paper $14.00 *
SIGNS AND WONDERS: Outsider Art inside North Carolina, Roger Manley,
Raleigh, University of North Carolin Pr., 1989, paper, new $19.95 net
THRESHING DAYS, Chester Garthwaite. Paintings of the early days of
farming in the Midwest by folk painter Laverne Kammerude, Wisconsin
Folk Museum Publ., 103 pgs., 21 color paintings, hard
$20.95 *
(multiple copies available with quantity discounts to booksellers
and storekeepers - ask for discount schedule) Also available are
prints of the paintings in the book, again quantity discounts to
store keepers -Ask
THE SPIRIT IN THE STONE, The Visionary Art of James W. Washington,
Paul J. Karlstrom, Univ. of Washington Pr., $17.50
one copy only
TURNERS AND BURNERS, The Folk Potters of North Carolina, Charles G.Zug
III,
Univ. Of North Carolina Pr.,paper, some copies do have shelf wear, and
scuffing, may have been hurts, Published at 29.50 Special
$20.00
All these books are available by Mail. Include $2.50 shipping via
bookpost for the first title and add $1.00 for additional books.
Or with Visa, MC or AMEX we bill actual shipping. We try to ship within
a few days but we have a passion for folk and out-sider art and we do
sometimes take a break or get lost in the woods, please allow us a little
extra time.
Glaeve Books
P.O. Box 437
Mt. Horeb,WI
53572
FAX orders 1-608-437-4151 daytime only. )
email whitt...@aol.com.