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Edward M. Gomez contributed an illustrated essay "Poetry and Pathos: The Story of Adolf Wolfli's Vision Fuels the Debate over Outsider Art and the Nature of Creativity." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Don Quixote is the theme of Metz's densely drawn, brightly colored, handwritten picture poems. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Schwartzlin-Berberat wrote poetry in journals with obsessive, back-slanted handwriting. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This issue includes an essay by Ann Temkin, curator of 20th century art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, that is entitled "Wolfli's Asylum Art." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

From the curators' forward essay. "The works assembled for this exhibition confront an elementary complexity behind this pastime, driving artists froamdiverse paths to explore often obsessively, a unique relationship with the sky and the vertical axis it draws." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This catalogue was published on the occasion of the exhibition oh Heterotopia at the Deusches Architekturmuseum (DAM) from May to August 2008 in collaboration with the Dr. Guislaiin Museum in Ghent. Michel Foucault used the term "heterotopia" to refer to parallel social worlds tht display a different fabric of relationships and a different order - enclaves in the real world, such as prisons and sanatoriums. This book features works that can be considered "Outsider Art" - working outside the mainstsream, their authors are people exposed to extreme mental strains and pushed to the fringes of society. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The self-taught artist draws the theme of docile and tamed nature and mankind's domination over the natural world. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is a profusely illustrated book about the artistic scene in Brazil with particular emphasis on the 1960s. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The Sackner Archive holds three unique artist books by Purvis Young, the Miami artist who is the subject of this article. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This extensively illustrated book depicts artworks from the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore, Maryland. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Two essays, "Finster's Fantasies" and "A Preacher-Painter Leads Students to Their Own Artistic Roots" describe the interaction of the unschooled, spiritual artist with students at Lehigh. Four of Finster's pictures are illustrated. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.