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Books by Leslie Umberger
  | | Between Worlds(1st Edition) The Art of Bill Traylor by Leslie Umberger, Stephanie Stebich, Kerry James Marshall, Smithsonian Institution, Bill Traylor Hardcover, 448 Pages, Published 2018 by Princeton University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-691-18267-4, ISBN: 0-691-18267-1 "A major new look at the work of one of America’s foremost self-taught artistsBill Traylor (ca. 1853â€"1949) came to art-making on his own and found his creative voice without guidance; today he is remembered as a renowned American artist. Traylor was born into slavery on an Alabama plantation, and his experiences spanned multiple worldsâ€"black and white, rural and urban, old and newâ€"as well as the crucibles that indelibly shaped Am ..." |
 | | Untitled The Art of James Castle by Nicholas R. Bell, Leslie Umberger, Alexander Nemerov Hardcover, 128 Pages, Published 2014 by Giles ISBN-13: 978-1-907804-62-5, ISBN: 1-907804-62-5 "James Castle (1899-1977) spent his formative years in remote Garden Valley, Idaho and his adult life at locations near Boise, where, for nearly seven decades, he devoted himself daily to intensive art-making. Castle worked with materials that were immediately available, including a wide range of ephemeraadvertisements, periodicals, and packagingthat he manipulated with soot, sticks, string and improvised colors to create an elaborate ..." |
 | | We Are Made of Stories Self-Taught Artists in the Robson Family Collection (Paperback) by Leslie Umberger Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2022 by Princeton University Press, United States, New Jersey ISBN-13: 978-0-691-24042-8, ISBN: 0-691-24042-6 "... artists/philadelphia_wireman. Fox, Catherine. “Renown Came Late in Life for Gifted Folk Artist.” Atlanta JournalConstitution, October 24, 1982. Freiman, Jane Salzfass. “A Strategy for Entertaining: With Organized Planning and Informal ..." |
 | | The Drawing Season by Amy Chaloupka, Alison Ferris, Leslie Umberger Hardcover, 88 Pages, Published 2012 by N/A ISBN-13: 978-0-9710703-9-4, ISBN: 0-9710703-9-3 "Published on the occasion of The Drawing Season series of exhibitions by Alison Ferris, Amy Chaloupka, and Leslie Umberger, and presented by the John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin, February 19 through September 2, 2012." |
 | | Sublime Spaces and Visionary Worlds(1st Edition) Built Enviroments of Vernacular Artists by Leslie Umberger, Ruth Kohler Paperback, 427 Pages, Published 2007 by Princeton Architectural Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-9710703-5-6, ISBN: 0-9710703-5-0 "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 ..." |
 | | Hiding Places Memory in the Arts by Leslie Umberger, Anne Davis Basting Hardcover, 127 Pages, Published 2011 by John Michael Kohler Arts Center ISBN-13: 978-0-9710703-3-2, ISBN: 0-9710703-3-4 "HIDING PLACES: MEMORY IN THE ARTS mines the riches of the topic of memory with lush illustrations and original essays by Arts Center curators Amy Chaloupka and Leslie Umberger as well as experts in the fields of art history, American culture, and science." |
 | | Sublime Spaces and Visionary Worlds(1st Edition) Built Environments of Vernacular Artists by Leslie Umberger, Erika Doss, Lisa Stone, Ruth Deyoung Kohler, Jane Bianco, Contributor-Ruth Kohler, Erika Lee Doss Hardcover, 427 Pages, Published 2007 by Princeton Archit.Press ISBN-13: 978-1-56898-728-6, ISBN: 1-56898-728-5 "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 ..." |
 | | American Story by Leslie Umberger, Tom Patterson, Amy Chaloupka Hardcover, 142 Pages, Published 2009 by John Michael Kohler Arts Center ISBN-13: 978-0-9710703-8-7, ISBN: 0-9710703-8-5 |
 | | Messages & Magic 100 Years of Collage and Assemblage in American Art by Leslie Umberger Paperback, 79 Pages, Published 2008 by Arts Center ISBN-13: 978-0-9710703-7-0, ISBN: 0-9710703-7-7 "Elsa Mora (b. 1971; Cuba I California) Specimens, 2007; mixed-media assemblage; 76 in. diameter; Courtesy of the artist and Couturier Gallery, CA. In her painted and collaged works, Elsa Mora fuses disparate objects and materials with items she has handcrafted from paper, porcelain, fabric, wax, and more. In contrast to Surrealist ideas of incongruity and surprise, Mora brings together objects with a natural affinity, stirring the ..." |
 | | Ralph Fasanella Images of Optimism by Marc Fasanella, Leslie Umberger Hardcover, 128 Pages, Published 2017 by Pomegranate ISBN-13: 978-0-7649-7950-7, ISBN: 0-7649-7950-7 "Ralph Fasanella: Images of Optimism showcases nearly seventy of Fasanella's vibrant images of social conscience. An essay by Leslie Umberger articulates Fasanella's life of action and the deep-seated drive behind his work, and Marc Fasanella offers personal perspectives on this artist of the people. Includes Chronology, Index of Artworks, and Afterword." |
 | | Something to Take My Place the Art of Lonnie Holley by Mark Sloan, Theodore Rosengarten, Leslie Umberger, Bernard Herman Published 2015 ISBN-13: 978-1-4951-5866-7, ISBN: 1-4951-5866-7 |
 | | I'll Fly Away(1st Edition) by Albert Zahn, Leslie Umberger Paperback, 24 Pages, Published 2003 by John Michael Kohler Arts Cente ISBN-13: 978-0-9710703-2-5, ISBN: 0-9710703-2-6 "Albert Zahn (1864-1953), a native of the Prussian province of Pomerania, came to Wisconsin as a young man. Though he left much of the culture of his youth behind, he held impressions, memories, and beliefs from his homeland that, fused with life in northern Wisconsin, surfaced in the art he made in retirement men and women in Prussian dress, soldiers, sea captains, and ships. However, the bulk of his work reflected his more deeply seate ..." |
 | | Levi Fisher Ames. Menagerie.(1st Edition) by Leslie Umberger, Levi Fisher Ames Paperback, 21 Pages, Published 2001 by John Michael Kohler Arts Center ISBN-13: 978-0-9710703-0-1, ISBN: 0-9710703-0-X "Levi Fisher Ames (1843-1923), woodcarver and storyteller, entertained early twentieth-century audiences with his "L.F. Ames Museum of Art," also known as "The Grand Museum of Art and Natural History, Whittled Out of Wood." A carpenter by trade, Ames gave up heavy work after he was injured in the Civil War in 1862. He took up carving and created a vast wooden menagerie depicting animals from around the world and bizarre or heroic charact ..." |
 | | Norman Pettingill(1st Edition) Backwoods Humorist by Gary Groth, Johnny Ryan, Robert Crumb, Norman Pettingill, Fantagraphics Staff, Leslie Umberger, Fantagraphics Books Hardcover, 136 Pages, Published 2010 by Fantagraphics Books ISBN-13: 978-1-60699-319-4, ISBN: 1-60699-319-4 "A true outsider great, collected for the first time. Norman Pettingill is a true underground cartoonist, known and admired by a small coterie of cartooning connoisseurs, but completely unknown in the wider world. Norman Pettingill was an avid trapper and fisherman from Northern Wisconsin, and a self-taught artist. In 1947, at the age of 51, he created hundreds of pen-and-ink drawings and marketed many of them as postcards, printing and ..." |
 | | No Idle Hands The Myths and Meanings of Tramp Art: The Myths and Meanings of Tramp Art by Laura M. Addison, Umberger Leslie, Eric M. Zafran Hardcover, 264 Pages, Published 2017 by Museum Of New Mexico Press ISBN-13: 978-0-89013-622-5, ISBN: 0-89013-622-X "Tramp art describes a particular type of wood carving practiced in the United States and Europe between the 1880s and 1940s in which discarded cigar boxes and fruit crates were notched and layered to make a variety of domestic objects. These were primarily boxes and frames in addition to small private altars, crosses, wall pockets, clock cases, plant stands, and even furniture. Whittling objects such as chains and ball-in-cage whimsies ..." |
 | | Something to Take My Place The Art of Lonnie Holley by Mark Sloan Md, Bernard L. Herman, Lonnie Holley, Lizz Biswell, Theodore Rosengarten, Leslie Umberger Hardcover, 215 Pages, Published 2016 by Halsey Institute Of Contemporary Art, College Of Charleston ISBN-13: 978-1-4675-7448-8, ISBN: 1-4675-7448-1 "Lonnie Holley (born 1950), acclaimed by The New York Times as "the Insider's Outsider," is best known for his assemblage sculptures incorporating natural and man-made materials, often cast off or discarded; he has recently also begun to make music, through the Dust-to-Digital label. Legendary for his environmental assemblage that spread over two acres of his property in Birmingham, Alabama--now destroyed--Holley scavenges and repurposes ..." |
 | | Renée Stout Tales of the Conjure Woman by Renee Stout, Andrea Barnwell Brownlee, Mark Sloan, Fatima Mayfield, Ade Ofunniyin, Bernard L. Herman, Theodore Rosengarten, Leslie Umberger Hardcover, 172 Pages, Published 2015 by Halsey Institute Of Contemporary Art ISBN-13: 978-1-4675-8678-8, ISBN: 1-4675-8678-1 "Renee Stout's work explores the contours of the African American experience and the existence of an underground system of African-derived folk beliefs as transmitted from slavery to the present. This system, known variously as Hoodoo or conjuring, has its origins in herbal medicine, root work, and a belief in the spiritual attributes of plants and animals. For many years, the artist has used the alter ego Fatima Mayfield, a fictitious h ..." |
 | | Chris Hipkiss Visionary drawings by Chris Hipkiss, Leslie Umberger Paperback, 12 Pages, Published 2000 by England & Co. ISBN-13: 978-1-902046-07-5, ISBN: 1-902046-07-2 |
 | | Pattern and Paradox The Quilts of Amish Women by Smucker, Janneken, Umberger, Leslie Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 2024 by Giles ISBN-13: 978-1-913875-57-2, ISBN: 1-913875-57-1 |
 | | As Essential as Dreams(Illustrated) Self-Taught Art from the Collection of Stephanie and John Smither by Michelle White, David Breslin, Lynne Adele, Haley Berkman, Lee Kogan, Colin Rhodes, Leslie Umberger, William Fagaly, Brooke Davis Anderson, Víctor M. Espinosa, Edward M. Gómez, Jo Farb Hernández, Menil Collection Hardcover, 112 Pages, Published 2016 by The Menil Collection ISBN-13: 978-0-300-21841-1, ISBN: 0-300-21841-9 "This stunning book examines the collection of works by self-taught artists assembled by Stephanie and John Smither over the last thirty-odd years. A team of prominent curators, writers, critics, and art historians focuses on key works by twelve artists, including the boisterous assemblages of Thornton Dial; brightly colored visual interpretations of the Bible by Sister Gertrude Morgan; Oscar Hadwiger’s detailed wood models of fantastica ..." |
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