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 environments, which are presented for the first time in Sublime Spaces and Visionary Worlds. This colorful and inspiring book features the work of twenty-two vernacular artists whose locales, personal histories, and reasons for art-making vary ...
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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 environments, which are presented for the first time in Sublime Spaces and Visionary Worlds. This colorful and inspiring book features the work of twenty-two vernacular artists whose locales, personal histories, and reasons for art-making vary widely but who all share a powerful connection to home-as-art environments. Featured projects range from art environments that remain intact, such as Simon Rodiaa (TM)s Watts Towers in California, to sites lost over the years such as Emery Blagdona (TM)s six hundred elaborate Healing Machines, made of copper, aluminum, tinfoil, magnets, ribbons, farm machinery parts, painted light bulbs, beads, coffee can lids, and more. Sublime Spaces and Visionary Worlds is the first book to explore these spectacularly offbeat spaces in detail. From the Original Rhinestone Cowboy Loy Bowlina (TM)s wall-to-wall glitter-and-foil living room to the concrete bestiary of the witch of Fox Point Mary Nohl, each artist and project is described in detail through a wealth of visuals and text. Sublime Spaces and Visionary Worlds reminds us that our decorative choices tell the world not just what we like but who we are.
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Add this copy of Sublime Space and Visionary Worlds: Built Environments to cart. $60.00, very good condition, Sold by Moe's Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Berkeley, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2007 by Princeton Architectural Press.
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Very good in very good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. Contains: Illustrations, black & white, Illustrations, color. Audience: General/trade.
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VG-(light wear to cloth boards, corners & edges. slight curl to front board edge. dustjacket as edge-wear, rubbing to some corners & spine edges. ) Orange cloth, gilt letters on spine & front cover, black & color illus. dust jacket, 427 pp., many BW & color illus.; weighs 6.5 lbs. Issued in conjunction with a 2007-2008 exhibition. "The need to personalize our surroundings is a defining human characteristic. For some this need becomes a drive to transform their personal surroundings into multi-faceted works of art. For more than thirty-five years, the John Michael Kohler Arts Center in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, has been dedicated to the preservation of these environments, twenty-two of which are presented for the first time in Sublime Spaces & Visionary Worlds. This colorful and inspiring book explores the work of these vernacular artists whose locales, personal histories, and reasons for art making vary widely, but who all share a powerful connection to the home as art." (dj) Artists are: Levi Fisher Ames, Albert Zahn, Carl Peterson, Sam Rodia, James Tellen, Nick Engelbert, Fred Smith, David Butler, Emery Blagdon, Loy Bowlin, Eugene Von Bruenchenhein, Mary Nohl, Stella Waitzkin, Nek Chand, Tom Every, Charles Smith, Ernest Hupeden, Clarence Mosteller Powell, Jacob Baker, Peter Jodacy, John Ehn, and Frank Oebser.
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New. 1568987285. *** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request ***-*** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT-Flawless copy, brand new, pristine, never opened--428 pp. With 497 ills. (415 col. ). 32 x 26 cm. --with a bonus offer--
