Raw Vision 123 is a historic archive re-print of Raw Vision magazine's first three issues, 1989-1990. Raw Vision magazine is the world's leading source of outsider art, art brut, and contemporary folk art. These early issues have been out of print for many years, and original copies are now expensive collectors' items. Raw Vision 123 is an essential work of reference for all serious followers of Outsider Art.

Raw Vision 123: Historic Reprint of Raw Vision's First Three Issues

Arts & Photography

John Maizels

History & Criticism

Raw Vision

One day, Ferdinand Cheval, a French postman, came across a stone at Hauterives near Lyon, and was fascinated by its strange, evocative shape. He spent the next three decades collecting stones, shells, and fossils, and used them to build the Palais ideal. Cheval's palace is one of many works of architectural fantasy in this book, the result of over 20 years' research by celebrated architectural photographer Deidi von Schaewen. Like Cheval, the creators of these extraordinary worlds simply started building, with no rules to guide them and, in most cases, no previous artistic experience. These fantasy palaces, bizarre sanctuaries, and colorful sculpture gardens seldom follow a plan. Often the artists continued building for many years, sometimes until their dying day. Their work is impossible to categorise: Art brut, architecture with-out architects, self-taught art, fantasy architecture in the tradition of Piranesi, non-academic architecture, Outsider Art - none of these definitions quite encapsulates this worldwide phenomenon. Eccentric hideaways like the Tour de l'Apocalypse in Belgium, the Junkerhaus at Lemgo or the Owl House in South Africa appear alongside Simon Rodia's Watts Towers, which dominate the cityscape of Los Angeles. To venture into this world is to immerse oneself in the collective unconscious. The addresses of sites open to the public are listed in the appendix.

Fantasy Worlds (English, German and French Edition)

Taschen

MONDES IMAGINAIRES

Taschen International

Idea and photographs by Deidi von Schaewen. Texts by John Maizels. Edited by Angelika Taschen. Bound in the publisher's original blue boards with lettering on the front cover and spine in white and blue. Text is in English and German.

Deidi Von Schaewen

Photography & Video

This book is an Chinese translated version of Outsider Art Sourcebook. Shanghai University Press promotes ""Outsider Art Series"" to make Chinese people have a comprehensive understanding of the achievement of western outsider art. This book is one of the series. It has a large collection of related information on foreign outsider art, and it mainly contains five parts: reference books; sixty or seventy artists personal information and works; introduction of environmental landscape of various outsider art; brief introduction to several art galleries and outsider art exhibition as well as brief introduction to several outsider art museums. Whats more, the book is also appended with information on outsider art association and books related to outsider art.

Outsider Art Sourcebook: International Guide to Outsider Art and Folk Art (Chinese Edition)

Shanghai University Press Co.,Ltd

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Raw Vision 123: Historic Reprint of Raw Vision's First Three Issues

Fantasy Worlds (English, German and French Edition)

MONDES IMAGINAIRES

Fantasy Worlds (English, German and French Edition)

Outsider Art Sourcebook: International Guide to Outsider Art and Folk Art (Chinese Edition)