Showing Records: 81 - 98 of 98
St. Eom in the Land of Pasaquan / Patterson, Tom ; Williams J ; Mendes G ; Russell J ; Manley R ; Finster H., 1987
This is the biography and partial autobiography of Eddie Owens Martin later known as St. Eom. For the first 30 years of his life, he was a street hustler and a petty criminal and for last years an outsider artist until he committed suicide. Jonathan Williams, Roger Manley, and Guy Mendes contributed colored photographs of Martin and his artwork that he created for his house in Georgia. St. Eom's style was vividly colored abstractions as well as Buddha-like sculptures. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
St. Eom in the Land of Pasaquan / Patterson, Tom ; Williams J ; Mendes G ; Russell J ; Manley R ; Finster H., 1987
This is the biography and partial autobiography of Eddie Owens Martin later known as St. Eom. For the first 30 years of his life, he was a street hustler and a petty criminal and for last years an outsider artist until he committed suicide. Jonathan Williams, Roger Manley, and Guy Mendes contributed colored photographs of Martin and his artwork that he created for his house in Georgia. St. Eom's style was vividly colored abstractions as well as Buddha-like sculptures. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
The End Is Near!: Visions of Apocalypse Millennium and Utopia / Manley, Roger, editor ; Finster H ; Laffoley P., 1998
This extensively illustrated book depicts artworks from the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore, Maryland. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
The Meider-Giant-Cellar in Australie / Wolfli, Adolf., 1994
The Naive Art of Howard Finster / Finster, Howard., 1987
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.
There Is No Escape from Their Different Drummers / Jefferson, Margo; Johnson R., 1999
A comparative review of the mail art of Ray Johnson on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art and the folk art of Nellie Mae Rowe at the American Folk Art Museum points out their similarities in wanting "to communicate with a larger world and their urge to stay inside a small one, peopled only by their private thoughts and apparitions." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
[ToHo] / Kosek, Zdenek., 1990
The photograph by an unknown photographer on the verso of the drawing that depicts lightening strikes relates to Kosek's beliefs of predicting the weather. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
[Untitled] / Murry, J.B.., 1975
[Untitled] / Wolfli, Adolf ; Szeemann H., 1976
Several essays document the working methods and the symbolism employed by the artist. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
voyous voyants voyeurs / Trouille, Clovis ; diRosa H ; Nadau JP ; Erro ; Molinier P., 2009
Young at 60: Paintings, Drawings, Books and Other Objects / Young, Purvis ; Sackner MA ; Sackner RK., 2003
The Sackner Archive lent a book to this exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Zombic Text / Maizels, John., 1994
Each print of the edition was handcolored in a slightly different way. The image is wholly untranslatable hieroglyphics. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.