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We Are Made of Stories

Self-Taught Artists in the Robson Family Collection

By: Leslie Umberger

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We Are Made of Stories

Self-Taught Artists in the Robson Family Collection

By: Leslie Umberger

A richly illustrated history of self-taught artists and how they changed American art Artists without formal training, who learned from family, community, and personal journeys, have long been a presence in American art. But it wasn’t until the 1980s, with the help of trailblazing advocates, that the collective force of their creative vision and bold self-definition permanently changed the mainstream art world. In We Are Made of Stories, Leslie Umberger traces the rise of self-taught artists in the twentieth century and examines how, despite wide-ranging societal, racial, and gender-based obstacles, they redefined who could be rightfully seen as an artist and revealed a much more diverse community of American makers. Lavishly illustrated throughout, We Are Made of Stories features more than one hundred drawings, paintings, and sculptures, ranging from the narrative to the abstract, by forty-three artists—including James Castle, Thornton Dial, William Edmondson, Howard Finster, Bessie Harvey, Dan Miller, Sister Gertrude Morgan, the Philadelphia Wireman, Nellie Mae Rowe, Judith Scott, and Bill Traylor. The book centralizes the personal stories behind the art, and explores enduring themes, including self-definition, cultural heritage, struggle and joy, and inequity and achievement. At the same time, it offers a sweeping history of self-taught artists, the critical debates surrounding their art, and how museums have gradually diversified their collections across lines of race, gender, class, and ability. Recasting American art history to embrace artists who have been excluded for too long, We Are Made of Stories vividly captures the power of art to show us the world through the eyes of another. Published in association with the Smithsonian American Art Museum Exhibition Schedule Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC July 1, 2022–March 26, 2023

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Princeton University Press

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0691240426

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We Are Made of Stories

Self-Taught Artists in the Robson Family Collection

By: Leslie Umberger

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Self-Taught Artists in the Robson Family Collection

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Sublime Spaces and Visionary Worlds

Built Environments of Vernacular Artists

By: Leslie Umberger

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Sublime Spaces and Visionary Worlds

Built Environments of Vernacular Artists

By: Leslie Umberger

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 the home as art. Featured projects range from art environments that remain intact, such as Simon Rodia's Watts Towers in California, tosites lost over the years such as Emery Blagdon'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 "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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Princeton Architectural Press

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1568987285

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Between Worlds

The Art of Bill Traylor

By: Leslie Umberger

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Between Worlds

The Art of Bill Traylor

By: Leslie Umberger

Bill Traylor (ca. 1853-1949) is regarded today as one of the most important American artists of the twentieth century. A black man born into slavery in Alabama, he was an eyewitness to history--the Civil War, Emancipation, Reconstruction, Jim Crow segregation, the Great Migration, and the steady rise of African American urban culture in the South. Traylor would not live to see the civil rights movement, but he was among those who laid its foundation. Starting around 1939, Traylor--by then in his late eighties and living on the streets of Montgomery--took up pencil and paintbrush to attest to his existence and point of view. In keeping with this radical step, the paintings and drawings he made are visually striking and politically assertive; they include simple yet powerful distillations of tales and memories as well as spare, vibrantly colored abstractions. When Traylor died, he left behind more than one thousand works of art. In Between Worlds: The Art of Bill Traylor, Leslie Umberger considers more than two hundred artworks to provide the most comprehensive and in-depth study of the artist to date; she examines his life, art, and powerful drive to bear witness through the only means he had, pictures. The author draws on a wealth of historical documents--including federal and state census records, birth and death certificates, slave schedules, and interviews with family members-- to clarify the record of Traylor's personal history and family life. The story of his art opens in the late 1930s, when Traylor first received attention for his pencil drawings on found board, and concludes with the posthumous success of his oeuvre"--

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Princeton University Press

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0691182671

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9780691182674

Sublime Spaces and Visionary Worlds

Built Environments of Vernacular Artists

By: Leslie Umberger

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Tazewell County

By: Louise Leslie

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Tazewell County

By: Louise Leslie

Incredible in its attention to detail, this history of Tazewell County, Virginia—its people, towns, development, and progress—will prove a valuable addition to the libraries of natives, historians, and genealogists alike. The work delves into the original settling of the region and the discovery of vast coal deposits, especially the Pocahontas Coal Field.

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The Overmountain Press

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1570720312

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Rhythms of Recovery

Integrative Medicine for PTSD and Complex Trauma

By: Leslie E. Korn

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Rhythms of Recovery

Integrative Medicine for PTSD and Complex Trauma

By: Leslie E. Korn

Rhythm is one of the most important components of our survival and well-being. It governs our moods, sleep, respiration, and digestion, and is profoundly tied to our relationships with friends and family. But what happens when these rhythms are disrupted by traumatic events? How can balance be restored in ways that integrate the complex needs of mind, body, and spirit? What insights do eastern, natural, and modern western healing traditions have to offer, and how can practitioners put these lessons to use? Clients walk through the door with chronic physical and mental health problems as a result of complex traumatic events—how can clinicians make a quick and skillful connection with their clients’ needs and offer integrative mind/body methods they can rely upon? Rhythms of Recovery answers these questions and provides clinicians with effective, time-tested tools for alleviating the destabilizing effects of traumatic events. In the new edition, readers will find practical methods, illuminated by clinical vignettes, for integrating psychotherapies with somatics and bodywork, yoga, nutrition, herbs, psychedelic medicines, and more. The new edition also draws out the ways in which culture, social justice, and feminism intersect with the integrative medicine revolution in mental health. For mental health practitioners and students interested in integrating the art and science of complementary and integrative health, this deeply appealing book provides a comprehensive guide.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000879704

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Nantucket Cottages and Gardens

Charming Spaces on the Faraway Isle

By: Leslie Linsley

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Nantucket Cottages and Gardens

Charming Spaces on the Faraway Isle

By: Leslie Linsley

A definitive, full-color book to help bring the style of Nantucket Island into your home. There is something essentially charming about a simple cottage surrounded by a fence covered with roses. More than 1,200 of these houses can be found on Nantucket Island. Nowhere in this country are there more charming and diverse cottages featuring small pocket gardens and window boxes than on Nantucket. To a large extent, the character of the island is reflective of these little early homes. They were originally built by and for island residents at a time when islanders didn’t require, didn’t desire, or couldn’t afford anything larger. Living small, as typified by cottage living, has become the responsible, chic, innovative, and practical wave of the immediate future. Many homeowners are rethinking their needs in regard to space, opting for more quality and less quantity of space. They know that a house is more than square footage, and a small home is one that can be infused with special details and designed to accommodate the lifestyle of its occupants. Neither size nor volume has anything to do with style and comfort. The homes and gardens featured in Nantucket Cottages and Gardens reflect classic design elements that have been embraced in the past and continue to survive in the present. Throughout this book, the cottages of Nantucket will inspire those who are building new, renovating, or decorating a small home. When the quantity of space is pared down, more money can be spent on the things that give a house character, such as built-ins, weathered wood furniture, unique art pieces, and handmade textiles, to name a few.

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Simon and Schuster

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1634500024

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9781634500029

Between Worlds

The Art of Bill Traylor

By: Leslie Umberger

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By: Leslie Umberger

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Sublime Spaces & Visionary Worlds

Built Environments of Vernacular Artists

By: Leslie Umberger

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Built Environments of Vernacular Artists

By: Leslie Umberger

Præsentation af værker af kunstnerne: Levi Fisher Ames, Jacob Baker, Emery Blagdon, Loy Bowlin, David Butler, Nek Chand, John Ehn, Nick Engelbert, Tom Every, Ernest Hüpeden, Peter Jodacy, Mary Nohl, Frank Oebser, Clarence Mosteller Powell, Carl Peterson, Sam Rodia, Dr. Charles Smith, Fred Smith, James Tellen, Eugene von Bruenchenhein, Stella Waitzkin, Albert Zahn

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Princeton Architectural Press; John Michael Kohler Arts Center

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0971070350

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9780971070356

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We Are Made of Stories

We Are Made of Stories

We Are Made of Stories

We Are Made of Stories

Sublime Spaces and Visionary Worlds

Sublime Spaces and Visionary Worlds

Between Worlds

Between Worlds

Sublime Spaces and Visionary Worlds

Sublime Spaces and Visionary Worlds

Tazewell County

Tazewell County

Rhythms of Recovery

Rhythms of Recovery

Nantucket Cottages and Gardens

Nantucket Cottages and Gardens

Between Worlds

Between Worlds

Sublime Spaces & Visionary Worlds

Sublime Spaces & Visionary Worlds

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