...Grass Roots Art and Community Effort (G.R.A.C.E) was established by Don Sunseri in 1975 as a workshop program in Vermont, to encourage art making among various marginalized groups. The program focused upon the elderly and institutionalized, and in one light testifies to the triumph of a therapeutic ideology - social control and cost reduction through diversionary doodling - in which it's irrelevant whether the work is any good or if it's seen by anyone else. Yet Sunseri came to the rugged and isolated quadrant of Vermont with a radically different attitude.
'Art is art, and the people who make it are artists whatever else they might be. And they want their work to be seen.'
One of a group of promising New York artists in the late '60s that included Jeff Way, Frank Owen and Elizabeth Murray, Sunseri was working as an all-purpose maintenance troubleshooter in a convalescent home when he realized that he had found the garden of artistic Eden. The people around him could do incredible things; they began to make art.
This unique book presents works that until now have only been seen in private collections or museum vaults. Works by well known outsider artists and new discoveries express their personal interpretations of sexual desire and activity.
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Downloadable PDF version of the "Texts, Time and Listings" section of the Outsider Art Sourcebook featuring key texts, timeline and bibliography on Outsider Art as well as listings for Galleries, Studios, Websites & Organizations.
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Downloadable PDF version of the Environment section of the Outsider Art Sourcebook featuring 60 visionary environments from around the world. PREVIEW HERE
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This is a downloadable (PDF) version of the large Artists section of our renowned Outsider Art Sourcebook. Nearly 200 artists - fully responsive - biographies, references, images