Sublime Spaces and Visionary Worlds
Subtitle: Built Environments of Vernacular Artists
Contributors: Erika Doss (Contributor); Ruth D. Kohler (Contributor); Lisa Stone (Contributor); Jane Bianco (Contributor); Leslie Umberger (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press; John Michael Kohler Arts Center
Published: September 27, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 427
ISBN-13: 9781568987286
Subjects: Individual architects; Art; Art & Art Instruction; Folk & Outsider Art; History - General; Art / Folk Art; Photography / General; 20th century; Art, American; Homes and haunts; Outsider art; Outsider artists; United States
First sentence: Both this book and the Sublime Spaces & Visionary Worlds project as a whole evidence the John Michael Kohler Arts Center's more than thirty-five years of steadfast dedication to the built environments of vernacular artists.
Description: The need to personalize our homes is a defining human characteristic. For some, this need becomes a drive to transform their personal surroundings into multi faceted works of art. This colorful and inspiring 400-page book explores the work of these vernacular artists whose locales, personal histories, and reasons for art making vary widely but who all share a powerful connection to the home as art. Written by Leslie Umberger, with contributions by Erika Doss, Ruth DeYoung Kohler, Lisa Stone, and Jane Bianco.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgements / Ruth DeYoung Kohler
pagenum: 7; title: Taking the road less traveled / Ruth DeYoung Kohler
pagenum: 11; title: Wandering the old, weird America : poetic musings and pilgrimage perspectives on vernacular art environments / Erika Doss
pagenum: 25; title: The heart of the real / Leslie Umberger
pagenum: 47; title: Levi Fisher Ames : natural curiosity
pagenum: 57; title: Albert Zahn : heaven bound
pagenum: 75; title: Carl Peterson : a little magic
pagenum: 95; title: Sam Rodia : upward spiral
pagenum: 111; title: James Tellen : woodland messages
pagenum: 127; title: Nick Engelbert : no place like home
pagenum: 145; title: Fred Smith : not just another roadside attraction
pagenum: 167; title: David Butler : in good company
pagenum: 189; title: Emery Blagdon : properly channeled
pagenum: 203; title: Loy Bowlin : the road to my horizon
pagenum: 225; title: Eugene Von Bruenchenhein : once upon a starlit midnight
pagenum: 243; title: Mary Nohl : interplay
pagenum: 275; title: Stella Waitzkin : lost library
pagenum: 303; title: Nek Chand : a tale of two cities
pagenum: 319; title: Tom Every : magnetic force
pagenum: 345; title: Dr. Charles Smith : remaking the world
pagenum: 359; title: Ernest Hupeden, Clarence Mosteller Powell, Jacob Baker, Peter Jodacy, John Ehn, and Frank Oebser : heartfelt and homemade : six artists who made their own way
pagenum: 381; title: The Kohler Foundation and site preservation : a road well traveled / Lisa Stone
pagenum: 409; title: Bibliography
pagenum: 416; title: Staff
pagenum: 422; title: Index
pagenum: 423