Kategoria BISAC: Art >> Folk & Outsider Art

In The New York Times, Wendy Steiner named Joseph E. Yoakum (1890-1972) one of the six masters among American outsider artists. John Perreault wrote in The Village Voice, -The discovery of an authentic 'naive' artist such as Yoakum does not happen very often so it is cause for some celebration.-

With 50 color and 145 black-and-white reproductions, Traveling the Rainbow: The Life and Art of Joseph E. Yoakum is a fitting tribute to this fascinating...

A fresh and fabulous collection of 50 hand picked papercraft projects inspired by all things floral

Say it with flowers, with unique designs for birthdays, weddings, Christmas, Mother's day and much more. Create gorgeous cards, stunning gifts, pretty tags and coordinating envelopes using an array of techniquesEasy-to-adapt designs and inspiring variations allow creativity to blossom. Discover dazzling embellishments and funky papers to complement any theme, perfect for that extra-special flowery flourish. Styles include:

• Contemporary chic
• Floral fairies
• Funky...

For almost a decade Peter Quezada, a prolific self-taught artist, painted murals and lettering on buildings and retaining walls in neighborhoods northeast of downtown Los Angeles. He refers to his work as a -graffiti deterrent- or a -substitute for graffiti, - and he targets sites that are favorites of taggers and gang graffiti writers. Often he enlists their assistance and designs his murals to appeal to these youths as well as to discourage them from participating in antisocial behavior.

Highlighting the interplay of contemporary life, mass-media images that confront the public,...

Raised in West Virginia, self-taught artist Carolyn Norris (b. 1948) moved as a young woman of twenty-one to Cleveland, Mississippi, a quintessential Delta railroad town on the famous blues Highway 61. To create one of her first paintings, she tore the wooden back off a dresser to use as a canvas. She painted with available house paint and completed the painting with face makeup. Thus began the realization of a passionate need to paint.

Eventually, Norris came to serve as the visual griot of Cleveland. She has used a variety of media, painting on canvas, wood, paper, cardboard,...

The story of the American Quilt Trail, featuring the colorful patterns of quilt squares writ large on barns throughout North America, is the story of one of the fastest-growing grassroots public arts movements in the United States and Canada. In Barn Quilts and the American Quilt Trail Movement Suzi Parron travels through twenty-nine states and two Canadian provinces to visit the people and places that have put this movement on America's tourist and folk art map.

Through dozens of interviews with barn artists, committee members, and barn owners Parron documents a journey...