 | Self-Made Worlds: Visionary Folk Art Environments by Roger Manley
Buy used from: $29.30 Perhaps my favorite, by Roger Manley. Folk art environments, my favorite type of art.
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 | Fantasy Worlds (English, German and French Edition) by Deidi von Schaewen
Buy new: $39.99 / Used from: $19.97 A photo-intensive document of environments around the world.
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 | Raw Creation: Outsider Art & Beyond by John Maizels
Buy new: $26.37 / Used from: $25.00 A look at outsider art and the art of mental patients (the Prinzhorn collection and beyond) by the creator of Raw Vision magazine (Maizels) and the guy who started it all (Cardinal).
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 | Gardens of Revelation: Environments by Visionary Artists by John Beardsley
Buy used from: $9.25 My first outsider book, of visionary environments again. Nice text too.
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 | Beyond Reason: Art and Psychosis Works From the Prinzhorn Collection by Laurent Busine
Buy used from: $42.74 On the Prinzhorn collection, an early 20th century collection of French and German schizophrenic / mental patient art. Intriguing and beautiful. These influenced many surrealist and dadaist artists.
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 | Paradise Garden by Robert Peacock
Buy used from: $11.47 Howard Finster, number one. Great photography and layout.
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 | Howard Finster, Stranger from Another World: Man of Visions Now on This Earth by Howard Finster
Buy used from: $56.20 Howard Finster, number two.
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 | The End Is Near: Visions of Apocalypse, Millennium and Utopia : Works from the American Visionary Art Museum by Roger Manley
Buy used from: $14.85 Inaugural catalog for the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore. Visionary, often apocalyptic paintings and great essays by Manley, the Dalai Lama, Stephen Jay Gould, more.
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 | Outsider Art: Spontaneous Alternatives (World of Art) by Colin Rhodes
Buy new: $14.21 / Used from: $7.25 I don't have this yet, but Cardinal endorses it and it looks good.
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 | Raw Vision #32 by Robert Tatin
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $9.99 Raw Vision with French artist Robert Tatin on the cover. The best (and one of the only) outsider art magazines.
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 | Flight Out of Time: A Dada Diary (Documents of Twentieth Century Art) by Hugo Ball
Buy new: $23.14 / Used from: $7.10 Hugo Ball's dada diary. Not a "folk artist," but an artist of the internal world they draw from.
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 | Concerning the Spiritual in Art by Wassily Kandinsky
Buy new: $5.95 / Used from: $0.95 Another seminal work on the art of the interior world by one of the most influential artists of the 20th century.
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 | Degenerate Art by Stephanie Barron
Buy used from: $55.00 Hitler's 1937 exhibit that blacklisted the era's best artists. He hung dadaists and surrealists next to folk artists and mental patient's works. They'd have welcomed the comparison. By Stephanie Baron
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 | Exiles and Emigres by Stephanie Barron
Buy used from: $19.94 Catalog from best exhibit I've been to, a reworking of the Degenerate Art Exhibit. Also by Baron.
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 | Dada & Surrealism A&I (Art and Ideas) by Matthew Gale
Buy new: $18.21 / Used from: $9.48 Well-written account of the history of these movements.
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 | The Dada Painters and Poets: An Anthology, Second Edition (Paperbacks in Art History)
Buy new: $27.31 / Used from: $8.22 Supposedly the best book on dada, including the writers, as it was also a literary movement..
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 | The Success and Failure of Picasso by John Berger
Buy new: $11.70 / Used from: $0.50 Fabulously written book on how Picasso's life and psyche affected his work. I'm not even a fan of his but it was phenomenal.
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 | Building the Collective: Soviet Graphic Design 1917-1937
Buy used from: $125.00 Usually only available through the publisher (find the web site), a stunning catalog of Soviet political posters.
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 | Painting Revolution : Kandinsky, Malevich and the Russian Avant-Garde by John Bowlt
Buy used from: $7.90 Artist by artist blow with great plates and condensed history of the time.
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 | Art and Physics: Parallel Visions in Space, Time, and Light by Leonard Shlain
Buy used from: $2.06 A look at how developments in art and physics mirror each other. Fascinating, if his theories are a bit thinly backed at times. Good intro to both subjects as well.
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 | Parallel Visions: Modern Artists and Outsider Art by Maurice Tuchman
Buy used from: $17.63 Hard to find, but a catalog for the LA County Museum exhibit on outsider artists and modern artists. Several fabulous, landmark essays.
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 | Outsider Art by Roger Cardinal
Buy used from: $48.75 Long out of print (hence the price), Cardinal's seminal work from 1973 that started the modern interest in outsider art. My introduction to it back at UCLA.
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