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American Expressions of Liberty: Art of the People, by the People, for the Peopleby Gerard C. Wertkin , Jack Lenor LarsenISBN 0810963388 (0-8109-6338-8)
Hardcover, Harry N Abrams Inc
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American Radiance: The Ralph Esmerian Gift to the American Folk Art Museumby Stacy C. Hollander, Museum of American Folk Art, Gerard C. WertkinISBN 0810967413 (0-8109-6741-3)
Hardcover, Harry N Abrams Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'American Radiance: The Ralph Esmerian Gift to the American Folk Art Museum'Book summary:From the wistful charm of an early-19th-century American portrait of a sharp-nosed adolescent girl to the exquisite curves of a six-inch-long sea horse carved from the ivory tusk of a whale, Ralph Esmerian has an eye for the most striking examples of folk art. American Radiance lavishly showcases the collector's major gift to the American Folk Art Museum in New York, where it is on view through June 2002. With 778 photographs, 419 in color, this volume ranges over many categories, including portraits, scenic images, narrative watercolors, furniture and decorative objects, Shaker crafts, fraktur (ornate penmanship samplers, birth records, love tokens, and other illuminated texts), needlework, and wood and metal sculpture. Each of the 341 objects is fully discussed in a separate "notes" section written by 12 specialist contributors, so that the bulk of the book consists solely of captivating photographs alive with pattern, color, whimsy, and grace. --Cathy Curtis [via]
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The Art of Adolf Wolfli: St. Adolf-Giant-Creationby Stacy C. Hollander, Museum of American Folk Art, Gerard C. WertkinISBN 0691114986 (0-691-11498-6)
Hardcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Encyclopedia of American Folk Artby Stacy C. Hollander, Museum of American Folk Art, Gerard C. WertkinISBN 0415929865 (0-415-92986-5)
Hardcover, Routledge
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The Four Seasons of Shaker Life: An Intimate Portrait of the Community at Sabbathday Lakeby Gerard C. WertkinISBN 0671618156 (0-671-61815-6)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Gilded Lions and Jeweled Horses: The Synagogue to the Carouselby Murray Zimiles, Vivian B. Mann, Stacy C. Hollander, Gerard C. WertkinISBN 1584656379 (1-58465-637-9)
Hardcover, Brandeis Univ
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Home Sweet Home : The House in American Folk Artby Deborah Harding, Laura Fisher, Gerard C. WertkinISBN 0847824098 (0-8478-2409-8)
Hardcover, Rizzoli International Publications, Incorporated
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Indian Clubsby Deborah Harding, Laura Fisher, Gerard C. WertkinISBN 0810926709 (0-8109-2670-9)
Softcover, Harry N Abrams Inc
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The Jewish Heritage in American Folk Artby Norman L. Kleeblatt, Mary Black, Gerard C. Wertkin , Museum of American Folk Art, Jewish Museum (New York, N.Y.)ISBN 0876638582 (0-87663-858-2)
Softcover, Universe Books
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Light of the Spirit: Portraits of Southern Outsider Artistsby Norman L. Kleeblatt, Mary Black, Gerard C. Wertkin , Museum of American Folk Art, Jewish Museum (New York, N.Y.)ISBN 157806015X (1-57806-015-X)
Softcover, Univ Pr of Mississippi
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Light of the Spirit: Portraits of Southern Outsider Artists'Book summary:Gathering twenty-one widely known Southern artists from four Southern states, photographer Karekin Goekjian has captured the vital human connections between the creator and the object.
Working with moonlight, twilight, or a touch of flash, Goekjian photographs each artist and his art in the settings where that creative work occurs--the yards, worksheds, and woods of Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, and North Carolina.
"Goekjian's photographic art has an intensity that holds its own with self-taught art," says art critic and writer Donald Kuspit. "His photographs have the same aura of direct yet enigmatic statement, conveying the same sense of urgent abstraction and moral emergency."
From Alabama, Goekjian photographed Thornton Dial, Sr., Lonnie Holley, Ronald Lockett, W. C. Rice, Jimmy Lee Suddeth, and Mose Tolliver. From Georgia, Howard Finster, Dilmus Hall, Peter Loose, R. A. Miller, Harold Rittenberry, Jr., Reverend John D. Ruth, and Willie Tarver are included. Mississippi artists included are Burgess Dulaney, A. J. Mohammed, Sulton Rogers and Earl Simmons. And North Carolinians photographed are Benny Carter, James Harold Jennings, Clyde Jones, and Vollis Simpson.
Goekjian's extraordinarily vivid portraits of them in their special environments seem as natural as the clay, metal, wood, and paint these artists use. In a sense Goekjian paints with light. Each portrait produces a surreal effect that parts the curtain on the individual artist's special world and achieves a rare empathy with the subject matter. Drawing on the raw, earthy spirit that infuses these paintings and sculptures, Goekjian creates photos that are works of art in themselves.
Goekjian, a native of Beirut, Lebanon, and a resident of Athens, Georgia, is a photographer whose work has been widely exhibited and is in permanent collections of major international museums.
Robert Peacock, who wrote the artists' biographies and edited this book, has also written Paradise Garden: A Trip through Howard Finster's Visionary World and Sleep: Bedtime Reading. He lives in New York City. Gerard C. Wertkin is the Director of the Museum of Folk Art, New York City, and a professor at New York University.
OUTSIDER ARTISTS IN THEIR OWN WORDS:
"Why do I make art? I don't know why I do art. For fifteen years of my life I wouldn't give you two cents for all the art on earth. I didn't even finger paint when I was in school."
BENNY CARTER, north carolina
"I PAINT with my brush, 'cause that's why I got it and that brush don't wear out. When I die, the brush dies."
JIMMY LEE SUDDETH, alabama
"Howard Finster is a second Noah, to reach the world before it is too late. I am having more success in a way than Noah had. The first Noah preached to the world; he didn't get a one of them saved. This is what I am all about here trying to get peace in the world a thousand more years, to live here."
HOWARD FINSTER, georgia
"I always liked to play with mud. I guess I never growed up."BURGESS DULANEY, mississippi
"I love to paint because my paintings are beautiful. The president told me so."
MOSE TOLLIVER, alabama [via]
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Long May She Wave: A Graphic History of the American Flagby Norman L. Kleeblatt, Mary Black, Gerard C. Wertkin , Museum of American Folk Art, Jewish Museum (New York, N.Y.)ISBN 1580083129 (1-58008-312-9)
Hardcover, Ten Speed Press
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The Perfect Game : America Looks at Baseballby Norman L. Kleeblatt, Mary Black, Gerard C. Wertkin , Museum of American Folk Art, Jewish Museum (New York, N.Y.)ISBN 0810945045 (0-8109-4504-5)
Hardcover, Abrams , Incorporated, Harry N.
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Perfect Game : America Looks at Baseball'Book summary:For the ardent baseball fan, what sets the sport apart--what makes it "the perfect game"--are the treasured memories it evokes of a time gone by. This wonderfully nostalgic visual history celebrates more than 150 years of baseball's--and America's--past. Beginning in the 1840s and continuing through the end of the 20th century, the book and the American Folk Art Museum exhibition that it accompanies capture in portraits, watercolors, carvings, painted sign, lithographs, and a wide variety of everyday objects that are reminders of baseball the way it used to be.
The terracotta frieze from the original Yankee stadium, a hand-painted box office sign from an unidentified late 19th-century ballpark, and life-size carved wood figures are among the highlights of this visual feast for baseball fans, memorabilia collectors, and those who love American folk art and all Americana. Roger Angell, one of the outstanding baseball writers of our age, contributes some of his own cherished reminiscences of the national pastime. [via]
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A Place in Time: The Shakers at Sabbathday Lake, Maineby Stephen Guion Williams, Gerard C. WertkinISBN 1567923100 (1-56792-310-0)
Softcover, David R Godine Pub
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Self Taught Artists of the 20th Century: An American Anthologyby Stephen Guion Williams, Gerard C. WertkinISBN 081182098X (0-8118-2098-X)
Hardcover, Chronicle Books Llc
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Self Taught Artists of the 20th Century: An American Anthologyby Stephen Guion Williams, Gerard C. WertkinISBN 0811820998 (0-8118-2099-8)
Softcover, Chronicle Books Llc
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Sister Gertrude Morgan : The Tools of Her Ministryby Stephen Guion Williams, Gerard C. WertkinISBN 0847826236 (0-8478-2623-6)
Hardcover, Rizzoli International Publications, Incorporated
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Thornton Dial: Image of the Tigerby Stephen Guion Williams, Gerard C. WertkinISBN 0810932172 (0-8109-3217-2)
Hardcover, Harry N Abrams Inc
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- The dissolution of traditional "high art" restrictions
- The phenomenon of the African-American self-taught artist
- Dial's cultural tradition
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Traveling the Rainbow: The Life and Art of Joseph E. Yoakumby Stephen Guion Williams, Gerard C. WertkinISBN 1578062489 (1-57806-248-9)
Softcover, Univ Pr of Mississippi
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Treasures of Folk Art : The Museum of American Folk Artby Lee Kogan, Barbara Cate, Gerard C. WertkinISBN 1558595600 (1-55859-560-0)
Softcover, Abbeville Press, Incorporated
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