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Outsider/Folk Art

All titles (1998 to the present) in Recent Books in the Arts.

Bartra, Eli. Women in Mexican Folk Art: Of Promises, Betrayals, Monsters, and Celebrities. Iberian and Latin American Studies. Cardiff, UK: University of Wales Press, 2011. 184 pp.; 11 color ills.; 86 b/w ills. Paper $35.00 (9780708323649)

Burrison, John A. Brothers in Clay: The Story of Georgia Folk Pottery. Atlanta: University of Georgia Press, 2008. 376 pp. Paper $36.95 (9780820332208)

Congdon, Kristin G., and Tina Bucuvalas. Just Above the Water: Florida Folk Art. University Press of Mississippi, 368 pp.; 81 color ills. (1578067782)

Danielson, Virginia, Elizabeth Cohen, and Anthony Seeger. Folk Heritage Collections in Crisis. Council on Information and Library Resources, 2000. 63 pp.; 0 color ills.; 0 b/w ills. Paper $15.00 (1887334823)

Douglas, Diane, and Vicki Halper, eds. Choosing Craft: The Artist's Viewpoint. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009. 336 pp.; 50 b/w ills. Cloth $35.00 (9780807831199)

Foster, Kathleen A. Thomas Chambers: American Marine and Landscape Painter, 1808–1869. Exh. cat. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art in association with Yale University Press, 2008. 184 pp.; 107 color ills.; 9 b/w ills. Cloth $50.00 (9780300141054)

Gapar de Alba, Alicia, and Alma Lopez, eds. Our Lady of Controversy: Alma Lopez's "Irreverent Apparition." Austin: University of Texas Press, 2011. 348 pp.; 12 color ills.; 34 b/w ills. Paper $27.95 (9780292726420)

Garrett, Wendell, Virginia M. Mecklenburg, and Carolyn Weekley. Earl Cunningham's America. Washington, DC: Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2008. 144 pp.; 80 color ills. Cloth $45.00 (9781588342485)

Herman, Bernard L., ed. Thorton Dial: Thoughts on Paper. Exh. cat. Chapel Hill, NC: Ackland Art Museum and University of North Carolina Press, 2012. 224 pp.; 86 color ills.; 5 b/w ills. Cloth $45.00 (9780807835296)

Hilton, Alison. Russian Folk Art. Indiana-Michigan Series in Russian and East European Studies Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2011. 284 pp.; 20 color ills.; 130 b/w ills. Paper $24.95 (9780253223357)

Ice, Joyce, ed. On Collecting: From Private to Public, Featuring Folk and Tribal Art from the Diane and Sandy Besser Collection. Santa Fe: Museum of International Folk Art, Santa Fe, 2009. 160 pp.; 100 color ills. Paper $35.00 (9780295988887)

Katcher, Jane, David A. Schorsch, and Ruth Wolfe, eds. Expressions of Innocence and Eloquence: Selections from the Jane Katcher Collection of Americana, Volume II. Seattle, WA: Marquand Books, 2011. 452 pp.; 417 color ills. Cloth $95.00 (9780300175806)

Katz-Harris, Felicia. Inside the Puppet Box: A Performance Collection of Wayang Kulit at the Museum of International Folk Art. Santa Fe: Museum of International Folk Art, 2010. 200 pp.; 270 color ills. Paper $45.00 (9780295990743)

Kupsch, Tom. A Mythic Obsession: The World of Dr. Evermor. Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2008. 196 pp.; 25 color ills.; 280 b/w ills. Paper $26.95 (9781556527609)

Maclagan, David. Outsider Art: From the Margins to the Marketplace. London: Reaktion Books, 2010. 192 pp.; 45 color ills.; 2 b/w ills. Cloth $35.00 (9781861895219)

Manoguerra, Paul, ed. Amazing Grace: Self-Taught Artists from the Mullis Collection. Exh. cat. Athens, GA: Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, 2007. 1690 pp.; 90 color ills. Cloth $48.00 (9780915977635)

Patterson, Tom. Contemporary Folk Art: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Watson-Guptill in association with Smithsonian Institution, 2000. 112 pp.; 52 color ills. Paper $19.95 (0823009386)

Peiry, Lucienne. Art Brut: The Origins of Outsider Art. Trans. James Frank. Editions Flammarion, 2006. 300 pp.; 226 color ills.; 174 b/w ills. Paper $24.95 (9782080305435)

Petullo, Anthony. Self-Taught & Outsider Art: The Anthony Petullo Collection. Intro. Jane Kallir. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2000. 224 pp.; many color ills.; many b/w ills.; 0 ills. Cloth $50.00 (0252026667)

Prinzhorn, Hans. The Art of Insanity: An Analysis of Ten Schizophrenic Artists. Washington D.C.: Solar Books, 2011. 160 pp.; 93 b/w ills. Paper $29.95 (9780983248002)

Rhodes, Colin. Outsider Art: Spontaneous Alternatives. Thames and Hudson, 1999. 224 pp.; 75 color ills.; 112 b/w ills. Paper $14.95 (0500203342)

Russell, Charles. Groundwaters: A Century of Self-Taught and Outsider Artists. New York: Prestel, 2011. 240 pp.; 180 color ills. Cloth $65.00 (9783791344904)

Smarandache, Florentin. Outer-Art: Experimentation in Paintings, Drawings, Drafts, Computer Design, Collages, Photos. Romania: Abaddaba, 1999. 135 pp.; many color ills. Paper (9738102006)

Swartz, Anne, ed. Pattern and Decoration: An Ideal Vision in American Art, 1975–1985. Exh. cat. Yonkers, NY: Hudson River Museum, 2006. 120 pp.; 37 color ills. Paper $19.99 (9780943651354)