Description |
154 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 x 30 cm |
Note |
Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same title held at the American Folk Art Museum, New York, January 21-May 27, 2018. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
Contents |
Introduction -- Jean-Daniel Allanche : Piling up the dust of memories / Valérie Rousseau -- Josep Baqué : The absolute inventory of 1,500 fictitious characters / Valérie Rousseau -- Ariane Bergrichter : Patchworked narratives : reconfiguring the real / Valérie Rousseau -- Josie Lipton Bryant : Decoding enigma / Valérie Rousseau and Aurélie Bernard Wortsman -- Aloïse Corbaz : A visual theater / Valérie Rousseau and Aurélie Bernard Wortsman -- Henry Darger : An overview of realms of the unreal / Michael Bonesteel -- James Edward Deeds Jr. : A sequence of portraits and pastoral scenes rescued from a discarded album / Allison C. Meier -- Charles A.A. Dellschau : A higher vision is a basic demand of poetry / Thomas McEvilley -- Jean Fick : Logbook (Journal de bord) / Béatrice Steiner -- Jerry Gretzinger : Journey to another dimension / Laura Steward -- William A. Hall : An ever-expanding parallel universe intermingled with time markers / Valérie Rousseau -- Carlo Keshishian : Archive of the self: intricacy and coded diary drawings / Barbara Safarova -- Susan Te Kahurangi King : Narrative lines in the oeuvre of Susan King / Rae Pleasant -- Paul Laffoley : Thought-forms : diagrams for a vernacular language / Elyse Benenson -- Malcolm McKesson : When writing brings art into focus / Michael Bonesteel -- Melvin Edward Nelson : Tracking the world in its whirl / Valérie Rousseau -- Jean Perdrizet : The language t / Savine Faupin -- Achilles G. Rizzoli : Walls del verse : poetry unto stone / Valérie Rousseau -- Richard Saholt : The chemistry of madness / Michael Bonesteel -- Agatha Wojciechowsky : The medium is the message / Aurélie Bernard Wortsman -- Adolf Wölfli : From the cradle to the grave, or Through work and sweat, suffering and ordeals, Even through prayer into damnation ... / Barbara Safarova -- Shelters for stories / Christophe Boulander and Savine Faupin -- Acknowledgments / Anne-Imelda Radice. |
Subject |
Outsider art -- United States -- Exhibitions.
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Folk art -- United States -- Exhibitions.
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Outsider artists -- Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc. -- Exhibitions.
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Folk artists -- Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc. -- Exhibitions.
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Arts, American -- 20th century -- Exhibitions.
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Added Author |
American Folk Art Museum, host institution.
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Added Title |
Vestiges and verse : notes from the newfangled epic |
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Notes from the newfangled epic |
ISBN |
9780692056493 |
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0692056491 |
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