...Lucas, Kansas is a small farming community of 430 people nestled in the Geographic Center of the United States. Across the Midwest, rural communities are losing their inhabitants to out-migration, family farms are closing under pressure from an increasingly corporate agricultural industry, and decreasing population translates into loss of business opportunities in small towns. But the town of Lucas is surviving. This is perhaps due in part to the fact that at its core is Samuel Perry Dinsmoor’s folk art environment, the Garden of Eden. Built between 1907 and 1932, the Garden captures the social climate of the era through its sprawling concrete illustration of politics at the turn of the twentieth century from the perspective of the Populist Party.
Dinsmoor was born in 1843 in Eden. Built between 1907 and 1932, the Garden captures the social climate of the era through its sprawling concrete illustration of politics at the turn of the twentieth century from the perspective of the Populist Party.
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