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SUBLIME SPACES AND VISIONARY WORLDS: BUILT ENVIRONMENTS OF VERNACULAR ARTISTS
Leslie Umberger , Erika Doss & Ruth Kohler
Princeton Architectural Press, 2007
Hardcover
416 pages
650 colour & 100 b+w illustrations
ISBN: 9781568987286
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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.
Featuring 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 the home as art, the projects range from art environments that remain intact, to sites lost over the years. From 'Original Rhinestone Cowboy' Loy Bowlin's wall-to-wall glitter-and-foil living room to the concrete bestiary of '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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