Create and Be Recognized is the first survey of a compelling, always surprising art form -- outsider photography. Presented here is the work of seventeen largely self-taught artists who have used photography or photographic elements in their creations, including such luminaries as Adolf Wolfli, Howard Finster, and Henry Darger, as well as discoveries from little known, equally dramatic artists. As with most outsider art, the work here is fuelled by singular passions, marginalized mindsets, and extreme circumstances, falling outside mainstream picture-making. Employing collage (affixing photos or reproductions to a background), photocollage (photographs cut and pasted together to form a new whole), and tableaux (works based on manipulation and staging), the artists here present work that is, by turns, lyrical and frightening, and always fascinating. Published to coincide with a major touring exhibition of the same name originating at San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Create and Be Recognized documents an emerging and important facet of contemporary photography.
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Deborah Klochko has twenty year's experience as a photography curator and educator. The former director of the Friends of Photography, she lives in San Francisco.
John Turner is a writer, television producer, and an adjunct curator at the Museum of Craft and Folk Art in San Francisco.
John Turner is a writer, television producer, and an adjunct curator at the Museum of Craft and Folk Art in San Francisco.
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Nice book with weird photos from some wild outsider artists. Mad people really, but brilliant stuff. Fast shipping and a great price. Thank you
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OUTSIDER ART IS CHARACTERIZED BY a combination of unswerving purposefulness, an expressive density, extremism, a singular and often bewildering angle of vision, forthright antirealism, and fantasticality. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Eugene von Bruenchenhein, Lee Godie, Mutter Walla, Alexandre Lobanov Untitled, Antonio Pallaiolo, Howard Finster Untitled, Waldau Mental Asylum New!
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OUTSIDER ART IS CHARACTERIZED BY a combination of unswerving purposefulness, an expressive density, extremism, a singular and often bewildering angle of vision, forthright antirealism, and fantasticality. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Eugene von Bruenchenhein, Lee Godie, Mutter Walla, Alexandre Lobanov Untitled, Antonio Pallaiolo, Howard Finster Untitled, Waldau Mental Asylum New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- All Their Own: People and the Places They Build by Jan Wampler on page 20
- Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism by Alfred Hamilton Barr on page 13
- Robert Rauschenberg (October Files) by Branden W. Joseph on page 24
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