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Format: Hardcover
 ISBN-10: 0714831492
 ISBN-13: 9780714831497
 Jun 1996
 Publisher: Phaidon Inc Ltd
 240 pages
 Language: English |
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| Size | | Length: | 240 pages | | Height: | 12.0 in | | Width: | 10.8 in | | Thickness: | 1.2 in | | Weight: | 65.6 oz |
Industry Reviews "Outsider artists belong to no schools, follow no fashions, submit to no influences, and invent their own techniques. Their only discernible common characteristic is a superb indifference to anything but their own vision. Mr. Maizels's factual text is accompanied by quotations that are often as amazing as the works they purport to explain. One may not enjoy every item reproduced in this book, but visual excitement and intellectual provocation are abundant." Adams
"Maizels describes this volume as a an introduction and guidebook to a phenomenon as yet not fully explored...which he calls 'the very last frontier of discovery in art.'" Postman
Maizels, editor of Raw Vision, the international magazine on outsider and self-taught art, details the history of this art and its still developing recognition. He also discusses the theories and definitions that have grown up around the works of visionaries, the insane, and other extraordinary artists. He further examines art expressed in mediums outside of the conventional art world and devotes a final section to large-scale visionary environments throughout the world. This work complements other recently published titles on outsider art (Pictured in My Mind, LJ 5/15/96; Contemporary American Folk Art, LJ 8/15/96) as it presents the discoveries and influential theories on this contemporary art with a broad international view. For specialized collections and larger contemporary collections. Judith Yankeilun Lind, Roseland Free P.L., N.J. Breitman
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