Outsider Art Podcast

In this episode the OAP takes a shallow dive into a deep pond - Susan Te Kahurangi King's archive - and comes up with treasure.

Cover Image - Susan Te Kahurangi King, Untitled (detail), 29.5 x 21 cm, Graphite and marker, March 2012 - Image used with permission, © The Susan Te Kahurangi King Trust, all rights reserved.

Reading List

The Drawings of Susan Te Kahurangi King. Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami. 2016. ISBN - 978-0-9972492-7-9

Articles

Susan King, Address Unknown. Robert Leonard. Vault Magazine - Issue 33 (February to April 2021)

Explosive Drawings: Susan King's Mash-ups, Strange Landscapes, and Other Worlds. Edward M. Gomez. Hyperallergic (2014)

The Joys and Terrors of an Outsider Artist. Patrick Price. Hyperallergic (2017)

Other Links

Susan Te Kahurangi King. Instagram Link - https://www.instagram.com/susantekahurangiking/

The Petita Cole Collection. Instagram Link - https://www.instagram.com/thepetitacolecollection/

Aotearoa Print Studios. Website - https://apseditions.co.nz/collections/susan-king

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“Looking at her works demands shifting levels of attention, as we scan them to register the pattern, then again to excavate embedded images."

Robert Leonard on Susan Te Kahurangi King - Vault Magazine - Issue 33 (February to April 2021)

Cover Image - Untitled, 20 x 13 cm, crayon on paper, c. 1958 - Image used with permission, © The Susan Te Kahurangi King Trust, all rights reserved.

Reading List

The Drawings of Susan Te Kahurangi King. Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami. 2016. ISBN - 978-0-9972492-7-9

Articles

Susan King, Address Unknown. Robert Leonard. Vault Magazine - Issue 33 (February to April 2021)

Explosive Drawings: Susan King's Mash-ups, Strange Landscapes, and Other Worlds. Edward M. Gomez. Hyperallergic (2014)

The Joys and Terrors of an Outsider Artist. Patrick Price. Hyperallergic (2017)

Other Links

Susan Te Kahurangi King. Instagram Link - https://www.instagram.com/susantekahurangiking/

The Petita Cole Collection. Instagram Link - https://www.instagram.com/thepetitacolecollection/

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“I actually just find the paintings extraordinarily beautiful - I think they can live for me that simply.”

Brooke Davis Anderson on Henry Darger

Cover image - Henry Darger - Untitled (Overall Flowers - Recto) - detail - n.d.

Reading List

Henry J. Darger: In the Realms of the Unreal. John M. MacGregor. ISBN - 978-8886455060

Henry Darger, Throwaway Boy. Jim Elledge. ISBN - 978-1590208557

Darger's Resources. Michael Moon. ISBN - 978-0822351566

Darger: The Henry Darger Collection at the American Folk Art Museum. Brooke Davis Anderson. ISBN - 0-8109-1398-4

There are several other books on Henry Darger which can be found via a quick internet search.

Video List

In the Realms of the Unreal. Director - Jessica Yu. 2004

Other Links mentioned in the Episode

Outsider, The amazing story of Henry Darger - Podcast (Philippe Cohen Solal) - Podcast Link

Was Henry Darger Autistic? - Website Article (Cameron Straughan) - Article Link

Inspired by Henry Darger - Kyoko Nakamura - Website Link

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"Rather than condescendingly and misguidedly treating Darger only as a case study, we can look into his work for what it may tell us about both the powerful allure of mass-mediated narrative and imagery and the possibility (or impossibility) of escaping the labyrinthine and often terrifying histories and politics of which we in the world today are the direct heirs.” Michael Moon. Darger's Resources.

Cover image - Henry Darger - Untitled

Reading List

Henry J. Darger: In the Realms of the Unreal. John M. MacGregor. ISBN - 978-8886455060

Henry Darger, Throwaway Boy. Jim Elledge. ISBN - 978-1590208557

Darger's Resources. Michael Moon. ISBN - 978-0822351566

Darger: The Henry Darger Collection at the American Folk Art Museum. Brooke Davis Anderson. ISBN - 0-8109-1398-4

There are several other books on Henry Darger which can be found via a quick internet search.

Video List

In the Realms of the Unreal. Director - Jessica Yu. 2004

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In his external life Darger was a pitiable figure, reclusive, impoverished, orphaned at 16, often regarded as crazy, suffering almost constant pain in his later years and working menial jobs his entire life. However in the internal world of his writings and art he was both a hero and anti-hero, creator of magical, violent world’s and a fiercely determined protector of children.

Cover image - Henry Darger - "At Obrigano Captured once when Glandelinians had attacked Dicies headquarter, house to left middle of pictures They escaped with the four younger children however" - circa 1955/60

Reading List

Henry J. Darger: In the Realms of the Unreal. John M. MacGregor. ISBN - 978-8886455060

Henry Darger, Throwaway Boy. Jim Elledge. ISBN - 978-1590208557

Darger's Resources. Michael Moon. ISBN - 978-0822351566

Darger: The Henry Darger Collection at the American Folk Art Museum. Brooke Davis Anderson. ISBN - 0-8109-1398-4

There are several other books on Henry Darger which can be found via a quick internet search.

Video List

In the Realms of the Unreal. Director - Jessica Yu. 2004

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“As though this were the moment he had always been waiting for, Carlo immediately set out on his extraordinary journey, filling large sheets of paper one after the other, with total concentration, occasionally declaiming words in his sonorous voice and a language all his own."

Michael Noble ('Memories of Carlo' in Carlo Zinelli: RectoVerso)

Cover image - Carlo Zinelli. Untitled (verso). n.d.

Reading List

Carlo Zinelli: RectoVerso. 5 Continents Editions. ISBN 978-88-7439-844-7

Carlo Zinelli. The Museum of Everything presents.

Available from https://shop.musevery.com/collections/books/products/il-palazzo-di-everything-catalogue

Thanks to 5 Continents Editions for providing me with a copy of Carlo Zinelli: RectoVerso. You can find this book and many more exquisite Art books at their website - https://www.fivecontinentseditions.com/

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" I paint a memorandum of my dream" - Minnie Evans

Cover image - Minnie Evans. My very first. 1935

Reading List

Minnie Evans:Artist. Charles Muir Lovell (editor) and Erwin Hester (editor). ISBN 978-0963675903

Aspects of Minnie Evans. Nathan Kernan. On Paper, Vol.1, No. 6 (July - August 1997)

Off to the garden to talk with God. John Walker Myers. Southern Quarterly, Fall 1996.

Conversations with Minnie Evans 1962-1973. Nina Howell Starr. Smithsonian Institution Archives of American Art

Video Links

The angel that stands by me: Minnie Evans' Paintings - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJHnCB6DYf4&list=PL7IzWuVD2YXAEx2b3tp_xH5GdIw_ODOPt&index=4

Websites

http://minniesdreamscapes.org

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"Curiously, the Garden seems simultaneously made and not made for the visitor, and I felt as though I had happened across a great secret—despite the fact that on that day, like any other at the Garden, thousands of other paying visitors are also enmeshed in the same “secret.” Tracy Ann Buck Bonfitto from The Rock Garden: A Study of Memory, Place-Making, and Community in Chandigarh, India (Dissertation).

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

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“(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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Last time on the Outsider Art Podcast we left Martín Ramírez in 1948, having met Tarmo Pasto, the main actor in his discovery narrative. Pasto would go on to play one of the major roles in the last part of Ramírez’s life as an artist and be the primary source of his story and guardian and promoter of his work as it made it’s way firstly into minor exhibitions and then, via Jim Nutt and Phyllis Kind, into the commercial art world.

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

Cover image - Martín Ramírez - Untitled (Train and Tunnel) - C.1950

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

Formulaic Narrative in Outsider Art: The containment of Martín Ramírez and the classification of Thornton Dial. Cara Zimmerman Campbell. Thesis (2009) - UMI Number: 1469486

Outsider Art. Visionary Worlds and Trauma. Daniel Wojcik. ISBN 9781496808066

Groundwaters. A Century of Art by Self Taught and Outsider Artists. Charles Russell. ISBN 978-3-7913-4490-4

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First things first – let’s get some of the myths about Martín Ramírez straight – he wasn’t mute, at the time of his committal he was very likely not severely mentally ill, and the Freudian interpretation of a sexualised meaning to his many drawings of trains and tunnels is highly likely to be erroneous and, in the cold light of meaningful biography, wildly out of context...

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

Cover image - Martín Ramírez - Untitled (Four animals) - C.1953

Reading List

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

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

Outsider Art. Visionary Worlds and Trauma. Daniel Wojcik. ISBN 9781496808066

Groundwaters. A Century of Art by Self Taught and Outsider Artists. Charles Russell. ISBN 978-3-7913-4490-4

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“The victor (Wolfli), at one with the sacrifice, here in full grandeur; never has the front of the coin contrasted so strongly with the reverse: on the one side, ithyphallic, pursuing some poor little girl, on the other side, cheerful, though always locked in, sleeves rolled up, plug of tobacco in his cheek, in front of a pile of his most vivid creations, which, as an ensemble, represent one of the three or four most important oeuvres of the twentieth century. And, what is not, shall be. Amen, amen: Amen. And thus it shall be.” Andre Breton 1965

Adolf Wolfli on WikiArt - link

Cover Art - Adolf Wolfli - The Giant-City, St. Adolf's Hall (1914)

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

Groundwaters. A Century of Art by Self Taught and Outsider Artists - Charles Russell - ISBN 978-3-7913-4490-4

Parallel Visions. Modern Artists and Outsider Art - ISBN - 0875871666

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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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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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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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