002 - Adolf Wolfli - Part 1
09/02/20 • 18 min
When Adolf Wolfli passed away on November 6th, 1930 he was working on what would become his final uncompleted work - Funeral March. He left behind 45 large self-bound books, and 16 exercise books of over 25,000 pages in total which included 1,600 drawings and 1,600 collages as well as approximately 50 Early artworks (from 1904-1907), numerous pieces of, what Walter Morgenthaler called, “Bread Art” but are now more commonly referred to as his single sheet drawings, as well as intricately painted objects such as a screen and wooden closets...
Artwork
Episode Cover art - Adolf Wolfli 'The Covered Almighty-Kettle' (1926)
Adolf Wolfli on WikiArt click here
Wolfli's Vocabulary of Forms
Wolfli's Vocabulary of Forms (from Adolf Wolfli. Draftsman, Writer, Poet, Composer - Editor Elka Spoerri)
Reading List
Adolf Wolfli. Draftsman, Writer, Poet, Composer - Editor Elka Spoerri - ISBN 0-8014-3403-3
Adolf Wolfli. Creator of the Universe - ISBN 978-80-87164-95-2
The Art of Adolf Wolfli. St. Adolf-Giant-Creation - ISBN 0-691-11498-6
Outsider Art. Visionary Worlds and Trauma - Daniel Wojcik - ISBN 9781496808066
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When Adolf Wolfli passed away on November 6th, 1930 he was working on what would become his final uncompleted work - Funeral March. He left behind 45 large self-bound books, and 16 exercise books of over 25,000 pages in total which included 1,600 drawings and 1,600 collages as well as approximately 50 Early artworks (from 1904-1907), numerous pieces of, what Walter Morgenthaler called, “Bread Art” but are now more commonly referred to as his single sheet drawings, as well as intricately painted objects such as a screen and wooden closets...
Artwork
Episode Cover art - Adolf Wolfli 'The Covered Almighty-Kettle' (1926)
Adolf Wolfli on WikiArt click here
Wolfli's Vocabulary of Forms
Wolfli's Vocabulary of Forms (from Adolf Wolfli. Draftsman, Writer, Poet, Composer - Editor Elka Spoerri)
Reading List
Adolf Wolfli. Draftsman, Writer, Poet, Composer - Editor Elka Spoerri - ISBN 0-8014-3403-3
Adolf Wolfli. Creator of the Universe - ISBN 978-80-87164-95-2
The Art of Adolf Wolfli. St. Adolf-Giant-Creation - ISBN 0-691-11498-6
Outsider Art. Visionary Worlds and Trauma - Daniel Wojcik - ISBN 9781496808066
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001 - Outsider Art Podcast - The Journey Begins
An introduction to the Outsider Art Podcast in which I introduce myself, tell you what the podcast series is going to be about and get tangled up in the existential quagmire that is Outsider Art.
In short summary the Outsider Art Podcast will be an episodic series looking at the Art, Artists, History, Controversies and whatever else raises its head as we do a deep dive into this fascinating genre.
We will be exploring the Art and Artists that sit (often uncomfortably) within the genre, finding out about the history and the critical events, texts, exhibitions and personalities, and sifting through the "term warfare" controversies that have surrounded Outsider Art for many decades. But mostly we'll be celebrating the outstanding masterworks that have sprung from outside the art establishment.
Carmen Brown - Untitled
Reading List:
Each Episode will come with a reading list and this one is no different. It's by no means a complete list of what's available on the subject but they are all texts that I've either referenced in the show and/or have referred to in the past:
Books:
Outsider Art - Roger Cardinal - ISBN 0-289-70168-6
How to look at Outsider Art - Lyle Rexer - ISBN 0-8109-9202-7
Outsider Art. From the Margins to the Marketplace - David Maclagan - ISBN 978-1-86189-521-9
Outsider Art. Visionary worlds and trauma - Daniel Wojcik - ISBN 9781496808066
Vernacular Visionaries. International Outsider Art - Edited by Annie Carlano - ISBN 0-300-10173-2
Raw Creation. Outsider Art and Beyond - John Maizels - ISBN 0-7148-4009-2
Raw Vision. Outsider Art Sourcebook - Editor John Maizels - ISBN 0-9543393-0-4
Outsider Art. Spontaneous Alternatives - Colin Rhodes - ISBN0-500-20334-2
Parallel Visions. Modern Artists and Outsider Art - Edited by Maurice Tuchman and Carol S.Eliel - ISBN 0-87587-165-8
The Discovery of the Art of the Insane - John M. MacGregor - ISBN 0-691-04071-0
Artistry of the Mentally Ill - Hans Prinzhorn (translated by Eric von Brockdorff) - ISBN 978-3-662-00918-5
Papers:
On Outsider Art and the Margins of the Mainstream - Marcus Davies - 2007
Exhibitions of Outsider Art Since 1947 - Christina McCollum - 2017
Periodicals:
Raw Vision magazine
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003 - Adolf Wolfli - Part 2
In 1916 as part of the second of his narrative works, the Geographic and Algebraic Books, Wolfli assigned himself a new name (which required some explanation),
“St. Adolf the I, Great-King of Grenoble-St. Adolf King, Giant-City in Savojen; last named with an additional calculation-supplement of 50 hours is my third-youngest brother as a Great-God! And I am St. Adolf II, Couscous King and King Great-God. Bern, Friday, the 23rd June 1916”
After 16 years of concentrated work he must have felt he had earned this enriched sobriquet...
Adolf Wolfli on WikiArt - link
Cover Art - Adolf Wolfli - The Amazons (detail) (1919)
Reading List
Adolf Wolfli. Draftsman, Writer, Poet, Composer - Editor Elka Spoerri - ISBN 0-8014-3403-3
Adolf Wolfli. Creator of the Universe - ISBN 978-80-87164-95-2
The Art of Adolf Wolfli. St. Adolf-Giant-Creation - ISBN 0-691-11498-6
Outsider Art. Visionary Worlds and Trauma - Daniel Wojcik - ISBN 9781496808066
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