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Item specifics
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller Notes
- “Very good condition”
- ISBN
- 9788087164952
- Book Title
- Adolf Wölfli: Creator of the Universe
- Publisher
- Nakladatelstvi Arbor Vitae
- Item Length
- 10.9 in
- Publication Year
- 2013
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 1.4 in
- Genre
- Art
- Topic
- Individual Artists / Monographs, Folk & Outsider Art
- Item Weight
- 72.9 Oz
- Item Width
- 9.8 in
- Number of Pages
- 372 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Nakladatelstvi Arbor Vitae
ISBN-10
8087164954
ISBN-13
9788087164952
eBay Product ID (ePID)
164788183
Product Key Features
Book Title
Adolf Wölfli: Creator of the Universe
Number of Pages
372 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2013
Topic
Individual Artists / Monographs, Folk & Outsider Art
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Art
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.4 in
Item Weight
72.9 Oz
Item Length
10.9 in
Item Width
9.8 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
741.9494
Synopsis
Adolf Wölfli is the original outsider artist. Before Darger, Rizzoli and Rodia, there was Wölfli: orphan, laborer, criminal, artist and the subject of a 1921 monograph titled A Psychiatric Patient as Artist , authored by his doctor--the first publication on an outsider artist--which won him the admiration of André Breton and Jean Dubuffet, and gave birth to the outsider phenomenon. "Wölfli's creations treat the eye to a roller-coaster ride through a terrain bounded by Piranesi, biblical myth, illuminated manuscripts, tantric mandalas and Swiss cuckoo clocks," New York Times critic Roberta Smith once wrote--"in other words, a dizzying multi-cultural universe." Adolf Wölfli: Creator of the Universe is the most comprehensive publication on Wölfli ever published. It surveys his entire artistic and literary oeuvre, scrutinizing his intricately detailed drawings and collages and explicating his complex personal mythology. Translated here are texts such as Wölfli's "Short Biography," written shortly after his arrival at the Waldau Clinic in Bern, in 1895; his astoundingly bizarre list of inventions; and other prose works, alongside Wölfli's doctor's 1921 catalogue essay and other critical examinations. Visual and textual selections are included from the epic From the Cradle to the Grave, in which the artist recounts a fictitiously idyllic childhood; the Geographic and Algebraic Books, which describe his elaborate cosmology; and the St. Adolf Giant Creation, a chant in which Wölfli transposes music into abstract sounds and numbers. Orphaned at the age of ten, Adolf Wölfli (1864-1930) was arrested for sexual crimes in his late 20s. Upon his second arrest for such offences, in 1895, he was admitted to the Waldau clinic in his native town of Bern, Switzerland, where he soon began to draw, eventually amassing an oeuvre of thousands of works on paper. After his death, the Adolf Wölfli Foundation was formed to preserve his art., Adolf W lfli is the original outsider artist. Before Darger, Rizzoli and Rodia, there was W lfli: orphan, laborer, criminal, artist and the subject of a 1921 monograph titled A Psychiatric Patient as Artist , authored by his doctor--the first publication on an outsider artist--which won him the admiration of Andr Breton and Jean Dubuffet, and gave birth to the outsider phenomenon. "W lfli's creations treat the eye to a roller-coaster ride through a terrain bounded by Piranesi, biblical myth, illuminated manuscripts, tantric mandalas and Swiss cuckoo clocks," New York Times critic Roberta Smith once wrote--"in other words, a dizzying multi-cultural universe." Adolf W lfli: Creator of the Universe is the most comprehensive publication on W lfli ever published. It surveys his entire artistic and literary oeuvre, scrutinizing his intricately detailed drawings and collages and explicating his complex personal mythology. Translated here are texts such as W lfli's "Short Biography," written shortly after his arrival at the Waldau Clinic in Bern, in 1895; his astoundingly bizarre list of inventions; and other prose works, alongside W lfli's doctor's 1921 catalogue essay and other critical examinations. Visual and textual selections are included from the epic From the Cradle to the Grave, in which the artist recounts a fictitiously idyllic childhood; the Geographic and Algebraic Books, which describe his elaborate cosmology; and the St. Adolf Giant Creation, a chant in which W lfli transposes music into abstract sounds and numbers. Orphaned at the age of ten, Adolf W lfli (1864-1930) was arrested for sexual crimes in his late 20s. Upon his second arrest for such offences, in 1895, he was admitted to the Waldau clinic in his native town of Bern, Switzerland, where he soon began to draw, eventually amassing an oeuvre of thousands of works on paper. After his death, the Adolf W lfli Foundation was formed to preserve his art.
Text by
Baumann, Daniel, Anceau, Manuel, Förster, Eric
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