Sublime spaces & visionary worlds : built environments of vernacular artists /
"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 environment...
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| Language: | English |
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New York : Sheboygan, Wis. :
Princeton Architectural Press ; John Michael Kohler Arts Center,
c2007.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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| Acquisition Notes: | Gift of the Foundation for Self-Taught Artists (c.2) |
Table of Contents:
- Taking the road less traveled / Ruth DeYoung Kohler
- Wandering the old, weird America : poetic musings and pilgrimage perspectives on vernacular art environments / Erika Doss
- The heart of the real / Leslie Umberger
- Levi Fisher Ames : natural curiosity
- Albert Zahn : heaven bound
- Carl Peterson : a little magic
- Sam Rodia : upward spiral
- James Tellen : woodland messages
- Nick Engelbert : no place like home
- Fred Smith : not just another roadside attraction
- David Butler : in good company
- Emery Blagdon : properly channeled
- Loy Bowlin : the road to my horizon
- Eugene Von Bruenchenhein : once upon a starlit midnight
- Mary Nohl : interplay
- Stella Waitzkin : lost library
- Nek Chand : a tale of two cities
- Tom Every : magnetic force
- Dr. Charles Smith : remaking the world
- Ernest Hüpeden, Clarence Mosteller Powell, Jacob Baker, Peter Jodacy, John Ehn, and Frank Oebser : heartfelt and handmade : six artists who made their own way
- The Kohler Foundation and site preservation : a road well traveled / Lisa Stone.