Folk & Outsider Art

The extraordinary life of a captivating American artist, beautifully illustrated with his dreamlike drawings Much of Joseph Elmer Yoakum's story comes from the artist himself-and is almost too fantastic to believe. At a young age, Yoakum (1891-1972)...

A fascinating new look at an extraordinary artist whose deafness led to an acute visual awareness and near photographic memory Self-taught artist James Castle (1899-1977) is primarily known for soot and saliva drawings of meticulously rendered domestic...

craftsman working in a set tradition for a lifetime? What is the value of handwork? Why should even the roughly lacquered rice bowl of a Japanese farmer be thought beautiful? The late Soetsu Yanagi was the first to fully explore the traditional Japanese...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904750116Author David HeathcoteFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Middlesex University PressPublisher Middlesex University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783956793950Author Alex ColesFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Sternberg PressPublisher Sternberg PressWeight(grams) 261gDimensions(mm) 200mm * 125mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945430794Author Igor Dominik GorewiczFormat PaperbackPage Count 123Imprint Triglav PublishingPublisher Triglav PublishingWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm)...

Voicing Scotland takes the reader on a discovery tour through Scotland's traditional music and song culture, past and present. West unravels the strings that link many of our contemporary musicians, singers and poets with those of the past, offering up...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780890136522Author Felicia Katz-HarrisFormat HardbackPage Count 255Imprint Museum of New Mexico PressPublisher Museum of New Mexico PressWeight(grams) 1684g

Since the 1990s, artists and art writers around the world have increasingly undermined the essentialism associated with notions of "critical practice." We can see this manifesting in the renewed relevance of what were previously considered "outsider" art...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789188369000Author Frank Steam156 MaltFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Dokument PressPublisher Dokument Forlag

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945430770Author Igor GorewiczFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Triglav PublishingPublisher Triglav PublishingWeight(grams) 286gDimensions(mm) 254mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781741241297Author J. MappinPage Count 8Imprint Five MilePublisher Bonnier Publishing Australia

A visual road trip from Route 66 to Route 666, this rockin' collection of more than 600 artworks presents the unapologetically fun and undeniably cool spirit of rockabilly and psychobilly. The 55 artists featured here represent a global subculture and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782080204325Author Bruno DecharmeFormat HardbackPage Count 322Imprint FlammarionPublisher Editions FlammarionWeight(grams) 1950g

The Reverend Howard Finster was twenty feet tall, suspended in darkness. Or so he appeared in the documentary film that introduced a teenaged Greg Bottoms to the renowned outsider artist whose death would help inspire him, fourteen years later, to travel...

Bhajju Shyam - a brilliant artist from the Gond tribe in central India - was commissioned to paint the walls of an Indian restaurant in London, and spent two months in the city. The book that emerged from the journey is a visual travelogue of his first...

The hey-day of the British gypsy caravan was short, only about 70 years, during which period it grew from a simple utility vehicle, blossomed and flourished as a mobile work of art, then disappeared from common sight. These caravans were masterpieces of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781898253877Author Katie ArberFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Middlesex University PressPublisher Middlesex University Press

Since the last century, the relationship between vanguard and self-taught artists has been defined by contradiction. The established art world has been quick to make clear distinctions between trained and untrained artists, yet at the same time it has...

Here are India's best-known beasts -- tiger, elephant, deer, snake... rendered by a variety of folk and tribal artists. Each of their artistic traditions conceives of the beast in distinctive ways, as original in the imagining as it is in the rendering...

A major new look at the work of one of America's foremost self-taught artistsBill Traylor (ca. 1853-1949) came to art-making on his own and found his creative voice without guidance; today he is remembered as a renowned American artist. Traylor was born...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556433115Author Pablo AmaringoFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.Weight(grams)...

In 1954, eager buyers lined up three abreast for over half a block to get into the Canadian Handicrafts Guild in Montreal where, once inside, they wrestled and argued to purchase stone sculptures carved by Inuit artists. In a short span, interest in...

Discover the romance of tramp art, folk art made made from discarded wooden cigar boxes, layer upon layer, one notch at a time, by untrained artists using simple tools and recycled materials. Tramp art crafters representing over 40 nationalities carved...

At the same time that arts funding and programming in schools are declining, exciting community-based art programs have successfully been able to build community, foster change, and enrich children's lives. Engaging Classrooms and Communities through Art...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780972898133Author Anjali GuptaFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Museum of Contemporary CraftPublisher Museum of Contemporary Craft

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615785653Author Jo Farb HernándezFormat HardbackPage Count 584Imprint East of BorneoPublisher East of Borneo

This volume initiates a gender-based framework for analyzing the folk art of Latin America and the Caribbean. Defined here broadly as the "art of the people" and as having a primarily decorative, rather than utilitarian, purpose, folk art is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945665127Author Harrell FletcherFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Manic D Press,U.S.Publisher Manic D Press,U.S.

Because clothing, food, and shelter are basic human needs, they provide excellent entries to cultural values and individual aesthetics. Everyone gets dressed every day, but body art has not received the attention it deserves as the most common and...

In the light of continuing debates on Indian women's mobility and choices, young Mithila painter from Bihar, India, Amrita Das offers a disarmingly fresh perspective on being female and an artist in the making.Book InformationISBN 9788193984161Author...

Sunny cats, sad cats, grinning cats, bad cats, cats with scowls and cats with jowls ...hand-bound with a silk screened cover, "I Like Cats" features a gallery of irresistible feline characters from some of the best-known tribal and folk artists of India...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780572025458Author Brian AustenFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint W Foulsham & Co LtdPublisher W Foulsham & Co LtdWeight(grams) 922g

A new approach to the work of self-taught artist James Castle that focuses on how his drawings and practice resonate with earlier masters Drawing on the collections of the William Louis-Dreyfus Foundation and the James Castle Collection and Archive, this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780867197761Author Elizabeth McGrathFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Last Gasp,U.S.Publisher Last Gasp,U.S.Weight(grams) 1324g

Part of everyday life, yet rich in symbolic meaning, renderings of the sun and the moon are present in all folk and tribal art traditions of India. They are always in relationship with each other. Agrarian societies keep track of time by referring to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781627310857Author Sean TejaratchiFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Feral House,U.S.Publisher Feral House,U.S.

Prior to his disappearance, Herbert Crowley was an innovator at the dawn of comics, and a defining figure of the early 20th century avant-garde. His illustrations were featured alongside work by Picasso, Matisse and Van Gogh in the 1913 Armory Show that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780854420728Author Edwin M. WyattFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Stobart Davies LtdPublisher Stobart Davies Ltd

From a fish waiting to be born, to the beginning of art and the necessity of death...lore from the Gond tribal community in central India abounds with stories of origins, transformations and ends. Celebrated Gond artist Bhajju Shyam now gathers together...