Raw Vision

My Soul Has Grown Deep considers the art-historical significance of contemporary Black artists and quilters working throughout the southeastern United States and Alabama in particular. Their paintings, drawings, mixed-media compositions, sculptures, and textiles include pieces ranging from the profoundly moving assemblages of Thornton Dial to the renowned quilts of Gee’s Bend. Nearly sixty remarkable examples—originally collected by the Souls Grown Deep Foundation and donated to The Metropolitan Museum of Art—are illustrated alongside insightful texts that situate them in the history of modernism and the context of the African American experience in the twentieth-century South. This remarkable study simultaneously considers these works on their own merits while making connections to mainstream contemporary art. Art historians Cheryl Finley, Randall R. Griffey, and Amelia Peck illuminate shared artistic practices, including the novel use of found or salvaged materials and the artists’ interest in improvisational approaches across media. Novelist and essayist Darryl Pinckney provides a thoughtful consideration of the cultural and political history of the American South, during and after the Civil Rights era. These diverse works, described and beautifully illustrated, tell the compelling stories of artists who overcame enormous obstacles to create distinctive and culturally resonant art. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Verdana}

Raw Vision magazine was first published in 1989 at a time when Outsider Art was almost a clandestine, secret area of art, only just a few people around the world knew about. The first editions of Raw Vision magazine presented works that have since become world famous but which, at the time, were shown to a wide audience for the first time. The early editions of Raw Vision soon sold out and over the years became expensive and sought-after collectors' items. Features include: The Art of Entrancement: the mediumistic and spiritual in Outsider Art; Word and Image in American Folk Art: a survey of Southern folk artists; Nek Chand's Rock Garden of Chandigarh: the world's largest sculpture park and visionary environment. Autour de l'Art Brut: an exploration of Dubuffet's theories of Art Brut. The work of SPACES, the Los Angeles based conservation organisation who were instrumental in saving the famous Watts Towers. Schroder-Sonnenstern: the demented erotic vision of this German draughtsman. Haiti and the school of Saint Soleil - contemporary works form the vibrant artistic world of Haiti. Willem van Genk: powerful Dutch visionary. Gustav Mesmer: Outsider and his flying machines, a latter day lcarus. Billy Morey - creating against all the odds - how art rescued him from a cycle of crime and punishment.

Founded in 1989, Raw Vision is the world's only international magazine on Outsider Art, Folk art, and Visionary art. Ignored and marginalized for many years, Outsider Art can now be seen as a vital creative force that expresses the true potentiality of the human spirit. With spectacular subject matter from around the world, Raw Vision was recently awarded a prize by UNESCO as the world's best art magazine of the year. Each edition contains essential reference and historical material that will be invaluable to researchers, scholars, and enthusiasts for years to come. Produced in full color, Raw Vision brings the works of little known and self-taught masters to a wide public for the first time.

Founded in 1989, Raw Vision is the world's only international magazine on Outsider Art, Folk art, and Visionary art. Ignored and marginalized for many years, Outsider Art can now be seen as a vital creative force that expresses the true potentiality of the human spirit. With spectacular subject matter from around the world, Raw Vision was recently awarded a prize by UNESCO as the world's best art magazine of the year. Each edition contains essential reference and historical material that will be invaluable to researchers, scholars, and enthusiasts for years to come. Produced in full color, Raw Vision brings the works of little known and self-taught masters to a wide public for the first time.

An innovative study of artists balancing tradition with creativity