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By Harris Diamant (foreword by)

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9781616894542 | 1 edition (Princeton Architectural Pr, March 29, 2016), cover price $29.95

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Product Description: The Reverend Howard Finster (1916–2001) was called the “backwoods William Blake” and the “Andy Warhol of the South,” and he is considered the godfather of contemporary American folk and visionary art. This book is the first interpretive analysis of the intertwined artistic and religious significance of Finster’s work within the context of the American “outsider art” tradition...read more

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9780520261099 | Univ of California Pr, June 26, 2015, cover price $70.00 | About this edition: The Reverend Howard Finster (1916–2001) was called the “backwoods William Blake” and the “Andy Warhol of the South,” and he is considered the godfather of contemporary American folk and visionary art.

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9780520261105 | Univ of California Pr, June 26, 2015, cover price $29.95

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Product Description: The Reverend Howard Finster was twenty feet tall, suspended in darkness. Or so he appeared in the documentary film that introduced a teenaged Greg Bottoms to the renowned outsider artist whose death would help inspire him, fourteen years later, to travel the country...read more

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9780226066851 | Univ of Chicago Pr, March 30, 2007, cover price $20.00

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9780226066875 | Reprint edition (Univ of Chicago Pr, June 12, 2015), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: The Reverend Howard Finster was twenty feet tall, suspended in darkness.

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Product Description: In Spiritual American Trash, Greg Bottoms goes beyond the examination of eight “outsider artists” and inhabits the spirit of their work and stories in engaging vignettes. From the janitor who created a holy throne room out of scraps in a garage, to the lonely wartime mother who filled her home with driftwood replicas of Bible scenes, Bottoms illustrates the peculiar grace in madness...read more

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9781619020597 | Counterpoint, April 2, 2013, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: In Spiritual American Trash, Greg Bottoms goes beyond the examination of eight “outsider artists” and inhabits the spirit of their work and stories in engaging vignettes.

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9780878057153 | Univ Pr of Mississippi, July 1, 1995, cover price $50.00

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9781617032158 | Univ Pr of Mississippi, July 5, 2011, cover price $30.00

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Product Description: The need to personalize our surroundings is a defining human characteristic. For some this need becomes a compulsion to transform their personal surroundings into works of art. The John Michael Kohler Arts Center in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, has undertaken the mission to preserve these environments, which are presented for the first time in Sublime Spaces and Visionary Worlds...read more
By Jane Bianco (contributor), Erika Doss (contributor), Ruth DeYoung Kohler (contributor), Lisa Stone (contributor) and Leslie Umberger

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9781568987286 | Princeton Architectural Pr, October 4, 2007, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: The need to personalize our surroundings is a defining human characteristic.

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Product Description: The need to personalize our surroundings is a defining human characteristic. For some this need becomes a compulsion to transform their personal surroundings into works of art. The John Michael Kohler Arts Center in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, has undertaken the mission to preserve these environments, which are presented for the first time in Sublime Spaces and Visionary Worlds...read more

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9780971070356 | Princeton Architectural Pr, September 30, 2007, cover price $20.01 | About this edition: The need to personalize our surroundings is a defining human characteristic.

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In this examination of self-taught artists who are often on the fringes of the social system, the inner workings of a traditional network of money, status, and values are revealed, describing how authenticity is central to this system.

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9780226249506 | Univ of Chicago Pr, June 30, 2004, cover price $38.00 | About this edition: In this examination of self-taught artists who are often on the fringes of the social system, the inner workings of a traditional network of money, status, and values are revealed, describing how authenticity is central to this system.

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9780226249513 | Univ of Chicago Pr, October 15, 2006, cover price $38.00

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Product Description: The first full-length celebration of an African American and Native American self-taught master's landscapes and travels In The New York Times, Wendy Steiner named Joseph E. Yoakum (1890-1972) one of the six masters among American outsider artists...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9781578063116 | Univ Pr of Mississippi, January 1, 2001, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: The first full-length celebration of an African American and Native American self-taught master's landscapes and travels In The New York Times, Wendy Steiner named Joseph E.

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9781578062485 | Univ Pr of Mississippi, January 1, 2001, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: The first full-length celebration of an African American and Native American self-taught master's landscapes and travels In The New York Times, Wendy Steiner named Joseph E.

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Product Description: In the quarter century since the death of Henry Darger--and the discovery of the astonishing cache of artworks and writings he left behind--this reclusive Chicago janitor has become recognized as one of the most important outsider artists of the twentieth century in America...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780847822843 | Rizzoli Intl Pubns, January 1, 2001, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: In the quarter century since the death of Henry Darger--and the discovery of the astonishing cache of artworks and writings he left behind--this reclusive Chicago janitor has become recognized as one of the most important outsider artists of the twentieth century in America.

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Product Description: Wonders to Behold examines West's extraordinary artistic achievement by featuring an essay on each of her Revelations paintings by noted writers, art scholars, and artists. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Carol Crown (editor), Rebecca L. Twist (editor) and Myrtice West

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9780914457992 | Mustang Pubn, November 1, 1999, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Wonders to Behold examines West's extraordinary artistic achievement by featuring an essay on each of her Revelations paintings by noted writers, art scholars, and artists.

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Product Description: Almost everyone in prison is either making art or buying it," notes Phyllis Kornfeld as she uncovers the alternative artworld flourishing today in American prisons. Her book, Cellblock Visions, not only presents some of the most inventive and gripping examples of outsider art, but also offers an unprecedented account of prison art in particular as a subject worthy of serious consideration...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780691029764 | Princeton Univ Pr, January 6, 1997, cover price $59.95 | About this edition: Almost everyone in prison is either making art or buying it," notes Phyllis Kornfeld as she uncovers the alternative artworld flourishing today in American prisons.

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Product Description: Book by Prince, Dan

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9781885203175 | Journey Editions, November 1, 1995, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: Book by Prince, Dan

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Product Description: Like many other veterans of the Vietnam conflict, Michael Cousino, a disabled former Marine from Gouverneur, N.Y., continues to struggle with bad memories and daily life adjustments. Unlike many other veterans he has found an outlet for his frustrations and grief...read more

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9780878057160 | Univ Pr of Mississippi, July 1, 1995, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Like many other veterans of the Vietnam conflict, Michael Cousino, a disabled former Marine from Gouverneur, N.

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