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Title: Sublime Spaces & Visionary Worlds: Built Environments of Vernacular Artists
Description: New York, Princeton Architectural Press / John Michael Kohler Arts Center, 2007. Hardcover. Orange cloth, gilt letters on spine & front cover, black & color illus. dust jacket, 427 pp. many BW & color illus.; weighs 6.5 lbs. Issued in conjunction with a 2007-2008 exhibition. "The need to personalize our surroundings is a defining human characteristic. For some this need becomes a drive to transform their personal surroundings into multi-faceted works of art. For more than thirty-five years, the John Michael Kohler Arts Center in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, has been dedicated to the preservation of these environments, twenty-two of which are presented for the first time in Sublime Spaces & Visionary Worlds. This colorful and inspiring book explores the work of these vernacular artists whose locales, personal histories, and reasons for art making vary widely, but who all share a powerful connection to the home as art." (dj) Artists are: Levi Fisher Ames, Albert Zahn, Carl Peterson, Sam Rodia, James Tellen, Nick Engelbert, Fred Smith, David Butler, Emery Blagdon, Loy Bowlin, Eugene Von Bruenchenhein, Mary Nohl, Stella Waitzkin, Nek Chand, Tom Every, Charles Smith, Ernest Hupeden, Clarence Mosteller Powell, Jacob Baker, Peter Jodacy, John Ehn, and Frank Oebser. VG- (light wear to cloth boards, corners & edges. slight curl to front board edge. dustjacket as edge-wear, rubbing to some corners & spine edges.) .

Keywords: American Art, Outsider Art, Vernacular Artist ; Outsider Art ; ;

Price: US$ 140.00 Seller: Kevin Mullen, Bookseller
- Book number: 141087

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