Outsider Art Podcast

“(Nek) Chand’s private vision engaged India’s collective spirit. Here, what has been called “outsider” art proves more culturally affirmative than the aesthetic of high modernism officially endorsed and imposed as the architectural vision for the region.”

(Groundwaters: A Century of Art by Self-Taught and Outsider Artists - Charles Russell - ISBN 978-3791344904)

Nek Chand Foundation website - nekchand.com

Cover image - Nek Chand. Sculptures in the Rock Garden of Chandigarh

Reading List

Nek Chand's Outsider Art: The Rock Garden of Chandigarh. Lucienne Perry (Author), John Maizels (Author), Philippe Lespinasse (Photographer) - ISBN 978-2080305183

The Ruin, the Collection and the Theatre: archtiecture, sculpture and landscape of Nek Chand's Rock Garden, Chandigarh. Soumyen Bandyopadhyay and Iain Jackson. ISBN 978-1846311208

Papers

The Rock Garden: A Study of Memory, Place-Making, and Community in Chandigarh, India. Tracy Ann Buck Bonfitto. UCLA 2017

Articles

The Vulnerability of Outsider Architecture. Roger Cardinal. Southern Quarterly, Fall 2000

Also check out the Bibliography on the Nek Chand Foundation's website - https://nekchand.com/select-bibliography-nek-chand-outsider-art-chandigarh

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There is something unique and fascinating about the work of the self-taught visionary Madge Gill - the nameless women that feature in almost all of her drawn and painted works provide a haunting gaze challenging the viewer to both look more closely but, so intensely do they stare, it’s hard not to look away - they are the eyes to the soul of an unseen force that unrelentingly drove the hand of an artist for over forty years.

Madge Gill on Artsy - https://www.artsy.net/artist/madge-gill

Cover Image - Madge Gill. Crucifixion of the Soul (detail) - c.1935

Reading List

Madge Gill by Myrninerest. Sophie Dutton. ISBN - 978-1912722341

Madge Gill: Myrninerest. Edited by Henry Boxer and David Tibet. Available from this website - https://www.davidtibet.com/products/madge-gill-myrninerest

Outsider Art. Roger Cardinal - ISBN 0-289-70168-6

Outsider Art. Visionary worlds and trauma. Daniel Wojcik - ISBN 9781496808066

Websites

http://worksby-madgegill.co/

http://madgegill.com/

Video Links

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sslBan180xQ&feature=em-upload_owner - Orleans House Gallery – Madge Gill Discussion

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Born into slavery in the American South in 1853, emancipated in 1865 and living into his 90's Bill Traylor's life spanned a tumultuous time in US history. He had lived for over 8 decades before he began creating the art for which he has become known and his extant works come from a period between 1939 and 1942. Bill Traylor is an American Master who packed a lifetime of experiences into his short career as an artist creating a potent and still relevant body of work that resonates just as powerfully as ever.

Bill Traylor on Artsy (Between Worlds show) - https://www.artsy.net/show/smithsonian-american-art-museum-between-worlds-the-art-of-bill-traylor

Cover Image - Bill Traylor. Untitled (Yellow Chicken). circa 1939-40

Reading List

Between Worlds: The Art of Bill Traylor. Leslie Umberger. ISBN - 978-0691182674

Bill Traylor - Deep Blues. Edited by Josef Helfenstein and Roman Kurzmeyer. ISBN - 0 300 081960

Bill Traylor William Edmondson and the Modernist Impulse. Edited by Josef Helfenstein and Roxanne Stanulis. ISBN - 1-883-01535-9

Bill Traylor, Conjure and Intentionality. Randall Morris. Raw Vision Magazine #100

The World of Bill Traylor. Leslie Umberger. Antiques Magazine - July/August 2018

America is a snarling dog. Jerry Saltz. New York Magazine - November 25-December 8 2019

Video Links

Between Worlds: The Art of Bill Traylor. Smithsonian symposium youtube link - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0uD1XJCILk

Documentary

Bill Traylor: Chasing Ghosts - http://www.billtraylorchasingghosts.com/

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Judith Scott was born on May 1st 1943 and passed away, in the arms of her twin sister Joyce, in March 2005 aged 62 years old. Not unlike Adolf Wolfli and Martin Ramirez, Scott lived a life that was broken into distinct parts, but unlike Wolfli and Ramirez it was her freedom from institutionalisation that led to her embarking on her artistic career.

Judith Scott on Artsy - https://www.artsy.net/artist/judith-scott

Cover Image - Judith Scott. Untitled. 2004

Reading List

Judith Scott – Bound and Unbound. Edited by Catherine Morris & Matthew Higgs. ISBN – 978-3-7913-5384-5

Metamorphosis: The Fiber Art of Judith Scott. John M. MacGregor. ISBN - 978-0967316000

Entwined: Sisters and Secrets in the Silent World of Artist Judith Scott. Joyce Wallace Scott. ISBN – 978-0807051405

Judith Scott 'Cocoon'. Roberta Smith. New York Times - Art in Review - May 3rd 2002

The work of (creating) art. Benjamin Fraser. Cultural Studies 24:4 - 16th March 2010

Documentaries

Que tienes debajo del sombrero - http://www.debajodelsombrero.org/video.php?id=1096&lang=en

Outsider: The life & art of Judith Scott - https://reelabilities.org/film/outsider-the-life-art-of-judith-scott/

Judith Scott's Magic Cocoons - https://www.artbrut.ch/en_GB/articles/movies/judith-scott-s-magic-cocoons

AFAM Discussion

Virtual Insights: Judith Scott. American Folk Art Museum - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8szSesCET88

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The artwork of Martín Ramírez is singularly distinctive. Once seen, never forgotten and always recognisable, his drawings play many of the same notes time and again, rearranged and reimagined but always clearly in his hand...

Martín Ramírez on Artsy - https://www.artsy.net/artist/martin-ramirez

Cover image - Martín Ramírez - Untitled (Alamentosa) - detail - C.1953

Reading List

Martín Ramírez - Framing his life and art. Victor M. Espinosa. ISBN 978-1-4773-0775-5

Framing Martín Ramírez. Victor M. Espinosa. Dissertation (2012) - UMI Number: 3527726

Martín Ramírez. Brook Davis Anderson. ISBN-13: 978-0-9778028-1-4

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