Outsider Art in Texas : Lone Stars / Jay Wehnert.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wehnert, Jay, author.

Series:

Joe and Betty Moore Texas art series ; no. 20.

Number twenty: Joe and Betty Moore Texas art series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Outsider artists--Texas--Biography.

Outsider artists.

Outsider art--Texas.

Outsider art.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 117 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

College Station : Texas A&M University Press, [2018]

Summary:

Texas looms large: big skies, vast plains, large cities. The Lone Star State often inspires a heightened sense of place in its citizens that rivals or surpasses that of New Yorkers. This is frequently reflected in the art of Texas--paintings of bluebonnet fields, longhorn cattle, and scenes from the Texas frontier have long enjoyed popularity with collectors. Outsider artists, on the other hand, live and create on the fringes of culture and society. Generally removed from the influence of place, they prefer instead to chart their own, intensely personal, interior landscapes. They usually have little awareness of or connection to the mainstream art world or its history, and they typically possess limited intention that their work will have an audience or find a place in the broader landscape of art. Woven through the lives and work of outsider artists is a common thread of isolation. This isolation may be psychological, cultural, socioeconomic, geographical, racial, or institutionally imposed. Circumstances of life, chosen or not, have placed these artists apart. However, these artists, like their formally trained peers, find that they are compelled to make art; it is essential to their lives as a manifestation of their personal histories, societal and cultural forces, and an unfailing drive to express themselves. In Outsider Art in Texas: Lone Stars , author Jay Wehnert takes readers on a visually stunning excursion through the lives and work of eleven outsider artists from Texas, a state particularly rich in outsider artists of national and international renown.

Contents:

Charles Dellschau (1830-1923)

Frank Jones (ca. 1900-1969)

Henry Ray Clark (1936-2006)

Consuelo 'Chelo' González Amezcua (1903-1975)

Hector Alonzo Benavides (1952-2002)

Eddie Arning (1898-1993)

Ike Morgan (1958- )

Johnnie Swearingen (1908-1993)

Felix 'Fox' Harris (1905-1985)

Vanzant Driver (1956- )

Richard Gordon Kendall (ca. 1930).

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-62349-623-3

OCLC:

1032714142