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Reference, Source Books & Encyclopedias
Maizels, John, ed., Raw Vision, Outsider Art Sourcebook, Raw Vision Ltd., 2002.
Meyer, George H., ed., Folk Artists Biographical Index, Gale Research Co., 1987.
Rosenak, Chuck and Jan Rosenak, Museum of American Folk Art Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century American Folk Art and Artists, Abbeville Press, 1990.
Sellen, Betty-Carol with Cynthia J. Johanson, Outsider, Self taught, and Folk Art, Annotated Bibliography: Publications and Films of the 20th Century, McFarland, 2002.
Sellen, Betty-Carol with Cynthia J. Johanson, Self taught, Outsider, and Folk Art: A Guide to American Artists, Locations and Resources, McFarland & Co., 2000.
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Visionary Art Environments
Beardsley, John, Gardens of Revelation: Environments by Visionary Artists, Abbeville Press, 1995.
Manley, Roger, Self-made Worlds: Visionary Folk Art Environments, Aperture, 1997.
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General Reference
Ayres, James, Two Hundred Years of English Naive Art, 1700-1900, Art Services International, 1996.
Barth, Jack, Doug Kirby, Ken Smith and Mike Wilkens, Roadside America, Simon & Schuster, 1986.
Brackman, Barbara and Cathy Dwigans, eds., Backyard Visionaries: Grassroots Art in the Midwest, University Press of Kansas, 1999.
Cardinal, Roger, Outsider Art, Praeger Publishers, 1973.
Carlano, Annie, ed., Vernacular Visionaries: International Outsider Art, Yale University Press in association with the Museum of International Folk Art, 2003.
Cerny, Charlene and Suzanne Seriff, eds., Recycled, Re-seen: Folk Art from the Global Scrap Heap, Harry N. Abrams in association with the Museum of International Folk Art, Santa Fe, 1996.
Eliel, Carol S. and Maurice Tuchman, eds., Parallel Visions: Modern Artists and Outsider Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1992.
Fine, Gary Alan, Everyday Genius: Self-Taught Art and the Culture of Authenticity, University of Chicago Press, 2004.
Greenfield, Verni, Making Do or Making Art: A Study of American Recycling, UMI Research Press, 1984.
Hall, Michael D. and Eugene W. Metcalf, Jr., eds., The Artist Outsider: Creativity and the Boundaries of Culture, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1994.
Hoffberger, Rebecca, Tree of Life: The Inaugural Exhibition of the American Visionary Art Museum, The Museum, 1996.
Kogan, Lee, Revelations: Alabama’s Visionary Folk Artists, Crane Hill, 1994.
Laffal, Florence, American Self-Taught Art: An illustrated Analysis of 20th Century Artists and Trends with 1,319 Capsule Biographies, McFarland & Co., 2003.
Maizels, John, Raw Creation Art and Beyond, Phaidon Press Limited, 1996.
Manley, Roger, Signs and Wonders: Outsider Art Inside North Carolina, North Carolina Museum of Art, 1989.
Manley, Roger, et al., The End is Near:Visions of Apocalypse, Millennium and Utopia: Works from the American Visionary Art Museum, Dilettante Press, 1998.
Maresca, Frank, American Self-Taught: Paintings and Drawings by Outsider Artists, Knopf, 1993.
Monroe, Gary, Extraordinary Interpretations: Florida's Self-Taught Artists, University Press of Florida, 2003.
Morris, Randall, Redemption Songs: The Self-Taught Artists of Jamaica, Winston-Salem State University, 1997.
Patterson, Tom, Reclamation and Transformation: Three Self-Taught Chicago Artists: David Philpot, Mr. Imagination, Kevin Orth, Terra Museum of American Art, 1994.
Peacock, Robert and Annibel Jenkins, Paradise Garden: A Trip through Howard Finster’s Visionary World, Chronicle Books, 1996.
Peiry, Lucienne, Art Brut: The Origins of Outsider Art, Paris, 2001
Rhodes, Colin, Outsider Art: Spontaneous Alternatives, London, 2000.
Russell, Charles ed., Self-Taught Art: The Culture and Aesthetics of American Vernacular Art, University Press of Mississippi, 2001.
Sellen, Betty-Carol with Cynthia J. Johanson, 20th Century American Folk, Self Taught, and Outsider Art, Neal-Schuman, 1993.
Thévoz, Michel, Art Brut, New York, 1975.
Thévoz, Michel, The Art Brut Collection Lausanne, BNP Paribas Swiss in collaboration with the Swiss Institute for Art Research, BNP Paribas Suisse, 2001.
Von Schaewen, Deidi, Fantasy Worlds, Taschen, 1999.
Weiss, Allen S., Shattered Forms, Art Brut, Phantasms, Modernism, State University of New York, 1992.
Yelen, Alice Rae, Passionate Visions of the American South: Self-Taught Artists from 1940 to the Present, New Orleans Museum of Art, Distributed by University Press of Mississippi, 1993.
Zolberg, Vera L. and Joni Maya Cherbo, eds., Outsider Art: Contesting Boundaries in Contemporary Culture, Cambridge University Press, 1997.
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Museum & Exhibition Catalogs
Dichter, Claudia, Outsider Art: Collection Charlotte Zander, Wachter, 1999.
Gordon, Ellin, Barbara R. Luck, and Tom Patterson, Flying Free: Twentieth-Century Self-Taught Art from the Collection of Ellin and Baron Gordon, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation in association with the University of Mississippi, 1997.
Jones, Harvey, Christina Orr-Cahill, Donna Reid, Susan C. Larsen, Seymour Rosen, Louise Lackson, Cat and a Ball on a Waterfall: 200 Years of California Folk Painting and Sculpture, The Oakland Museum, 1986.
Patterson, Tom, Àshe: Improvisation & Recycling in African-American Visionary Art: Diggs Gallery at WSSU, February 2-March 29, 1993, Diggs Gallery at Winston-Salem State University, 1993.
Petullo, Anthony, Self-Taught & Outsider Art: The Anthony Petullo Collection, introduction by Jane Kallir, University of Illinois Press, 2001.
Tuchman, Maurice, Parallel Visions. Modern Artists and Outsider Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1992.
Baking in the Sun: Visionary Images from the South: Selections from the Collection of Sylvia and Warren Lowe, First edition, University Art Museum, University of Southwestern Louisiana, 1987.
Let it Shine: Self-Taught Art from the T. Marshall Hahn Collection, Essays by Lynne E. Spriggs, Joanne Cubbs, Lynda Roscoe Hartigan, High Museum of Art, Distributed by the University Press of Mississippi, 2001.
Outsider Art: An Exploration of Chicago Collections: Chicago Cultural Center, December 9, 1996-February 23, 1997, Kenneth C. Burkhard, guest curator, City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Intuit: the Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art, 1997.
Outsider Art from Europe: A Selection of Works on Paper, Atrium Gallery, February 15-March 4, 1988, Sal Scalora, curator, School of Fine Arts, Dept. of Art, University of Connecticut at Storrs, 1988.
Outsiders: An Art Without Precedent or Tradition, Arts Council of Great Britain, 1979.
Private Worlds: Classic Outsider art from Europe, Katonah Museum of Art, December 13, 1998-February 28, 1999, John Beardsley, Roger Cardinal, guest curators, Katonah Museum of Art, 1998.
Self-Taught Artists of the 20th century: An American Anthology, foreword by Gerard C. Wertkin, curated by Elsa Longhauser and Harald Szeemann, Chronicle Books, 1998.
Naives and Visionaries, Walker Art Center, E. P. Dutton, 1974.
Wrestling with History: A Celebration of African American Self-Taught Artists from the Collection of Ronald and June Shelp, Sandra Kraskin, curator, Sidney Mishkin Gallery, Baruch College, 1996.
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Museums
American Visionary Art Museum, Baltimore, MD
http://www.avam.org/
The American Folk Art Museum, New York, NY
http://www.folkartmuseum.org/
The Anthony Petullo Collection of Self-Taught and Outsider Art, Milwaukee, WI
http://www.petulloartcollection.com/
Collection de Art Brut, Lausanne, Switzerland
http://www.artbrut.ch/
Lynch Collection of Outsider Art, Wesleyan College, NC
http://www.ncwc.edu/arts/lynch/
Mennello Museum of American Folk Art, Orlando, FL
http://www.mennellomuseum.com/
Museum of Craft and Folk Art, San Francisco, CA
http://www.mocfa.org/
UCM Museum, Abita Springs, LA
http://ucmmuseum.com/
Outsider Art Museum, Moscow
http://www.museum.ru/museum/outsider/default.htm
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Journals
Raw Vision
http://www.rawvision.com
Flash Art
http://www.flashartonline.com
Modern Painters
http://www.modernpainters.co.uk
Folk Art: Magazine of the Museum of American Folk Art
http://www.folkartmuseum.org
Folk Art Messenger
http://www.folkart.org
Art Journal
http://www.artsjournal.com
Art Forum
http://www.artforum.com
Art and Australia
http://www.artaustralia.com
Art New Zealand
http://www.art-newzealand.com
ARTNews
http://www.artnewsonline.com
Art Nexus
http://www.artnexus.com
Art Forum
http://www.artforum.com
American Art Review
http://www.amartrev.com
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Articles
"Environmental Art in California, A Sampling," Folk Art Finder 7 (4), October 1986.
Crease, Robert and Charles Mann, "Backyard Creators of Art that Say: 'I Did it, I'm Here.'" Smithsonian Magazine, August 1983.
Dobies, Nancy, "Folk Art Environments" Antiques West 10 (4), April 1990.
Feinstein, Lea, "The Visionary’s Vision: Link talks with AVAM’s Founder, Rebecca Alban Hoffberger," Link 3, Summer 1998, p. 36-59.
Rhodes, Colin, "The Origins of Art Brut," Raw Vision 29, Winter 1999-2000, p. 50-55.
http://www.rawvision.com/back/rhodes/rhodes.html
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Web Sites
Pathfinder - Resources about outsider art.
http://www.ils.unc.edu/dpr/path/outsiderart/online.html
Outsider and Visionary Art and Artists Bibliography - Tressa “Grandma” Prisbrey
Bottle Village site.
http://echomatic.home.mindspring.com/bv/res.html
abcd art brut - abcd (art brut connaissance & diffusion) is a French foundation with international scope, whose main objective is to research, study and make known art brut by means of exhibitions, publications and audio visual productions.
http://www.abcd-artbrut.org
Folk Art Society of America - A non-profit organization which advocates for the discovery, study, documentation, preservation and exhibition of folk art, folk artist, and folk art environments.
http://www.folkart.org
Raw Vision - A great source for information on intuitive and visionary art, outsider art, art brut, contemporary folk art, self taught art.
http://www.rawvision.com
Roadside America - Your online guide to offbeat tourist attractions.
http://www.roadsideamerica.com/
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Tressa "Grandma" Prisbrey (1896-1988)
Books
Prisbrey, Tressa, Grandma's Bottle Village, Privately printed, 1960.
Maizels, John, ed., Raw Vision, Outsider Art Sourcebook, Raw Vision Ltd., 2002, p. 141.
Manley, Roger and Mark Sloan, Self-Made Worlds: Visionary Folk Art Environments, Aperture, 1997, p. 50.
Slaymaker, Melissa Eskridge, Bottle Houses: The Creative World of Grandma Prisbrey, Henry Holt and Co., 2004.
Articles
"Tressa 'Grandma' Prisbrey 1896- 1988," Spaces 9, Winter/Spring 1989.
Brown, Patricia Leigh, "Reading the Message in the Bottles," New York Times, February 6, 1997, pp. B1, B8.
Elliot, Kate, "The History of Grandma Prisbrey's Bottle Village" Glass Art Society Journal, 1986.
Greenfield, Verni, "Grandma Prisbrey’s Bottle Village," Raw Vision 4, Spring 1991, p. 46-51.
Kleiman, Rona Lee, "The Incredible Bottle Village: From a Pencil Collection to a Shrine," Conejo Magazine, 1983.
Lennon, Nigey, "Simi Valley's Folk Art Treasure is Battling Time," Gold Coast Lifestyle, June 1989.
Michelson, Maureen, "Bottle Village: Divine Disorder," Glass Magazine, January/March 1979.
Zutell, Irene, "Bottle Battle," People Magazine, June 23, 1997, p. 113.
Videos
"Grandma's Bottle Village: The Art of Tressa Prisbrey" from Vision of Paradise produced & directed by Allie Light and Irving Saraf. Light-Saraf Films, San Francisco (415-469-0139 / zinalight@comcast.com). 1982.
Web Sites
Offical Bottle Village web site / Preserve Bottle Village
http://echomatic.home.mindspring.com/bv/index.html
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Nek Chand (b. 1924)
Books
England, Jane, contrib., Obsessive Visions: Art Outside the Mainstream, England & Co., 2001.
Articles
Bhatti, S.S., "The Rock Garden of Chandigarh," Raw Vision 1, Spring 1989, p. 22-31.
Maizels, John, "Nek Chand's Wonder of the World," in Raw Creation, Phaidon Press, 1996.
Maizels, John, et. al., "Nek Chand: 25 Years of the Rock Garden," Raw Vision 35, Summer 2001, p. 22-32.
Rajer, Anton, "Nek Chand’s Story: Can the World’s Largest Folk Art Environment be Saved?" The Folk Art Messenge r 13 (1), Winter/Spring 2000.
Reeve, Philip, "Nek Chand’s Visionary Environment," Raw Vision 9, Summer 1994, p. 34-41.
Web Sites
The Nek Chand Foundation
http://www.nekchand.com
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Ferdinand Cheval (1836 - 1924)
Books
Jouve, Jean-Pierre, Le Palais ideál du Facteur Cheval: Quand le songe devient reálité, A.R.I.E., 1994.
Perreaut, A., Le Palais Ideál du Facteur Cheval: Hauterives, Drome, Mâcon Combier, 1982.
Articles
Cheval, Ferdinand, "The Autobiography of Ferdinand Cheval, The Story of the Palais Ideál, Hauterives, December 1911, 34 years of persistent work, 9,000 days, 65,000 hours," Raw Vision 38, p. 24-31.
Melly, George, "The Palaise Ideál of Facteur Cheval," Raw Vision 4, Spring 1991, p. 28-35.
Tillier, Alain, "Restauration du jardin du Palais Deaál du Facteur Cheval a Hauterives, " Monumental 4, September, 1993, p. 89.
Web Sites
The offical site of Palais Ideál
http://www.aricie.fr/facteur-cheval/
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Dr. Evermor (b. 1938)
Articles
Hayes, Jeffrey, "An Interview with Tom Every (Doc Evermor)," The Bottlecap 1 (2), Summer 1998.
Hayes, Jeffrey, "Dr. Evermor’s Forevertron," The Folk Art Messenge r 11 (1), Winter 1998.
Krug, Don and Ann Perry Parker, "Power On! The Fantastic Environment of Dr. Evermor, Raw Vision 25, Winter 1998, p. 26-31.
Videos
"Statues by the Road ", Video Art Productions, McFarland, WI (608-873-5784 / vapbob@juno.com ), 2003
Web Sites
Roadside America - Your Online Guide to Offbeat Tourist Attractions
http://www.roadsideamerica.com/attract/WIBARforever.html
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Howard Finster (1916-2001)
Books
Finster Bradshaw, Thelma, Howard Finster, the Early Years: A Private Portrait of America's Premier Folk Artist, Crane Hill, 2001.
Finster, Howard and Tom Patterson, Howard Finster, Stranger from Another World: Man of Visions Now on this Earth, Abbeville Press, 1989.
Rosenbaum, Art, Folk Visions and Voices: Traditional Music and Song in North Georgia, University of Georgia Press, 1983.
Turner, J. F., Howard Finster, Man of Visions: The Life and Work of a Self-Taught Artist, Knopf, 1989.
Articles
"A Tribute to Howard Finster," The Folk Art Messenger 14 (3), Fall/Winter 2001/2002.
Damrosch, Barbara, "Backyards: The Garden of Paradise," Esquire, December 1975, p. 162.
Kirwin, Liza, "The Reverend Howard Finster: The Last Red Light before the Apocalypse," American Art 16 (2), Summer 2002, p. 90-93.
Murry, Jesse, "Reverend Howard Finster, Man of Vision," Arts Magazine LV/2, October 1980, p. 161-164.
Oppenheimer, Ann, "A Paradise that No One Wants; Report from Paradise Garden," The Folk Art Messenge r 7 (3), Spring 1994.
Patterson, Tom, "Paradise Before and After the Fall, " Raw Vision 35, Summer 2001, p. 42-51.
Turner, J.F., "Howard Finster’s Paradise Garden," Raw Vision 2, Winter 1989/1990, p. 8-15.
Museums featuring Finster’s work
The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA
http://www.fabricworkshop.org
Mennello Museum of American Art, Orlando, FL
http://www.mennellomuseum.com
Museum of American Folk Art, New York, NY
http://www.folkartmuseum.org
Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, GA
http://www.themorris.org
High Museum of Art, Atlanta GA
http://www.high.org
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC
http://www.americanart.si.edu
Videos
"Southern Flavor", From the television series Rare Visions & Roadside Revelations, KCPTV, Kansas City, KS, 2004
http://www.kcpt.org/rare_visions
Web Sites
The official home page of Howard Finster
http://www.finster.com
Howard Finster: Man of Vision
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~CAP/Finster/finster1.html
Listing in the New Georgia Encyclopedia
http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-977
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Helen Martin (1898-1976)
Articles
Ross, Susan Imrie, "The Owl House," Raw Vision 5, Winter 1991/92, p. 26-31.
Plays / Film
The Road to Mecca (play), by Athol Fugard, Theatre Communications Group, 1985
http://endeavor.med.nyu.edu/lit-med/lit-med-db
The Road to Mecca (film adaptation), Directed by Authoal Fugard and Peter Goldsmith
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105266/combined
Web Sites
The Owl House Foundation web site
http://www.owlhouse.co.za/
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Simon Rodia (1879 - 1965)
Books
Goldstone, Bud, The Los Angeles Watts Towers, Getty Conservation Institute and the J. Paul Getty Museum, 1997.
Minar, Rena, Case Studies of Folk Art Environments: Simon Rodia’s Watts Towers and Reverend Howard Finster’s Paradise Garden, 1994.
Articles
Billiter, Bill, "Simon Rodia’s Incredible Towers," Art News LXXVIII (4), April 1979, p. 92-96.
Hernendez, Jo Farb, "Watts Towers," Raw Vision 37,
Schrank, Sarah, "Picturing the Watts Towers: The Art and Politics of an Urban Landmark," in Reading California: Art, Image, and Identity, 1900-2000, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2000, p. 372-386.
Webb, Michael, "Saving Simon Rodia’s Towers," Portfolio 4, July-August 1983, p. 68-71.
Web Sites
Watts Towers of Simon Rodia State Historic Park web site
http://www.parks.ca.gov/default.asp?page_id=613
Watts Towers Arts Center web site
http://www.trywatts.com/towers.htm
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St. EOM (1908-1986)
Books
Patterson, Tom, St. EOM in the Land of Pasaquan: The Life and Times and Art of Eddie Owens Martin, Jargon Society, 1987.
Articles
Joiner, Dorothy, "Pasaquan," Raw Vision 19, Summer 1997, p. 28-35.
Sieder, Jill Jordan, "A Maniacal Marvel," Atlanta Magazine, January 1999.
Williams, Jonathan, "Corners of the Paradise Garden," Modern Painters 9 (2), Summer 1996, p. 51-58
Videos
"Southern Flavor", From the television series Rare Visions & Roadside Revelations, KCPTV, Kansas City, KS, 2004
http://www.kcpt.org/rare_visions
Web Sites
The Pasaquan Preservation Society web site
http://www.pasaquan.com
Roadside America / Pasquan - Your online guide to offbeat tourist attractions
http://www.roadsideamerica.com/attract/GABUEpasaquan.html
Rovin' and Ravin' with Mike - Passage To Pasaquan
http://www.peanut.org/mike/text/pasaquan.htm
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Leonard Knight (b. 1931)
Books
Yust, Larry, Salvation Mountain - The Art of Leonard Knight, (with commentary by Leonard Knight) New Leaf Press. 1998
http://www.newleafpress.com/current/descripts/sal_mtn.html
Articles
Yust, Larry, "The Interactive Mountain of Leonard Knight," The Folk Art Messenger 12 (3), Summer 1999.
http://www.folkart.org/mag/salva/salva.html
Yust, Larry, "Salvation Mountain," Raw Vision 16,
Video
Salvation Mountain video - Salvation Mountain: Portrait of an Artist © 1994 Larry Yust
Web Sites
The Interactive Mountain of Leonard Knight - Folk Art Society of America
http://www.folkart.org/mag/tribute.html
Salvation Mountain - The Art of Leonard Knight
http://www.newleafpress.com/current/descripts/sal_mtn.html
Roadside America / Salvation Mountain - Your online guide to offbeat tourist attractions
http://www.roadsideamerica.com/attract/CANILsalv.html
Leonard Knight interviewed by Deuce of Clubs
http://www.deuceofclubs.com/write/salv_mt.htm
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Vollis Simpson (b. 1919)
Books
Manley, Roger, Signs and Wonders: Outsider Art Inside North Carolina, North Carolina Museum of Art, 1989.
Articles
Williams, Jonathan, "Corners of the Paradise Garden," Modern Painters 9 (2), Summer 1996, p. 51-58.
Joel, Jane M., "Vollis Simpson: The Don Quixote of East-Central North Carolina," Folk Art Messenger 9 (3), Spring, 1996.
Videos
Museums featuring Simpon’s work
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC
http://ncartmuseum.org/
American Visionary Art Museum, Baltimore, MD
http://www.avam.org/
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
http://www.high.org/
Web Sites
Article from American Profile magazine
http://www.americanprofile.com/issues/20030615/20030615_3112.asp
Egg - The Art Show visits Vollis Simpson
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/egg/208/simpson/
Roadside America / Lucama, NC - Your online guide to offbeat tourist attractions
http://www.roadsideamerica.com/tips/getAttraction.php3?tip_AttractionNo=814
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