A groundbreaking retrospective of art from 'off the beaten path' sculpture features spectacular images from a wide variety of American artists and craftspeople, in a study that includes everything from religious totems and antique trade signs to hand-carved canes. 12,500 first printing.

Offers a series of paintings and collages by a self-taught African American artist, who worked as a laborer while expressing himself artistically on available materials, and provides background information on his life, work, and sources

One hundred American self-taught painters of the twentieth century--including Victor Duena, Sister Gertrude Morgan, Henry Darger, and Freddie Brice--are captured in a collection of 260 full-color reproductions of their extraordinary artworks.

Product Description: Until recently, American primitive sculpture was seen as a kind of folk art: objects whose design and purpose ere rooted in a community of tradition and related to the daily material and spiritual needs of ordinary people. But in recently years, collectors and historians have begun to place this body of art within the realm of fine and not folk art...read more