Sublime Spaces and Visionary Worlds: Built Environments of Vernacular Artists - Couverture rigide

Umberger, Leslie

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1568987285 ISBN 13 : 9781568987286

Editeur : Princeton Architectural Press, 2007

Synopsis

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. This colorful and inspiring book features the work of twenty-two 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. Featured projects range from art environments that remain intact, such as Simon Rodia's Watts Towers in California, to sites lost over the years such as Emery Blagdon's six hundred elaborate 'Healing Machines,' made of copper, aluminum, tinfoil, magnets, ribbons, farm-machinery parts, painted light bulbs, beads, coffee-can lids, and more.

Sublime Spaces and Visionary Worlds is the first book to explore these spectacularly offbeat spaces in detail. From 'Original Rhinestone Cowboy' Loy Bowlin's wall-to-wall glitter-and-foil living room to the concrete bestiary of 'witch of Fox Point' Mary Nohl, each artist and project is described in detail through a wealth of visuals and text. Sublime Spaces and Visionary Worlds reminds us that our decorative choices tell the world not just what we like but who we are.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Leslie Umberger is senior curator of exhibitions and collections at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center in Sheboygan, Wisconsin.

Erika Doss is a writer, art historian, editor, and professor. She has published a number of books, including the recent Twentieth-Century American Art.

Ruth DeYoung Kohler is a curator and vice president for the arts at the Wisconsin Academy for Sciences, Arts and Letters.

Lisa Stone is the curator for the Roger Brown Study Collection, house museum, and special collection of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Princeton Architectural Press
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1568987285
• ISBN 13: 9781568987286
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 416
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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