Product Description

Serving as a vibrant primer for people new to Outsider Art and love letter to those fairly familiar with it, Detour Art brings art and images by visionaries, untrained artists, and folk creators found along the back roads of America. It honors the creative spirit that is at once traditional and whimsical, spiritual and irreverent, earthy and sublime.

Included are works by Thornton Dial, Mose Tolliver, Jimmy Lee Sudduth, Howard Finster, Minnie Adkins, Linvel and Lillian Barker, The Baltimore Glassman, Sulton Rogers, Mary T. Smith, and James Harold Jennings. Among the folk art environments documented are S.P. Dinsmoor's The Garden of Eden, Leonard Knight's Salvation Mountain, Kenny Hill's Garden of Salvation, Dr. Evermor's Forevertron, and The Grotto of the Redemption.

The book features 99 encapsulated biographies and over 280 full color photographs.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #458103 in Books
• Published on: 2007-10-30
• Binding: Hardcover
• 156 pages

About the Author
Kelly Ludwig holds a B.F.A. from the University of Kansas and runs a small graphic design studio in Kansas City, Missouri. Her love of this art and the artists has led her to all regions of the country - collecting art, meeting artists, and photographing the visionary sites she encounters. Kelly has also created a web resource, detourart.com, that provides references for over 3,500 outsider, folk, and visionary artists and sites worldwide.