Miles B Carpenter (4 results)

Condition: very good. 6, wraps, illus., maps, brochure (two-fold/six panel)The site is registered with the Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission, the National Register of Historic Places, and is a National Folk Art Site.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Used sculptor biography in very good condition. Minor bumps/wear at edges/corners. Pages are clean and bright with black and white images. Spine is straight and tight.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Signed by author on Title Page. This is book number 87 of a limited edtion of 600 copies. Stapled. Slightly bumped corners but otherwise in near fine condtion. Signed By Author.

Ownership Signature of Roger Cardinal, Near Fine in publishers slightly rubbed decorated wrappers . Illustrated throughout.1st edition.Roger Cardinal was one of Britains most distinguished art historians, best known for defining what is generally known as Outsider Art - that is, art by people with no formal training. He began his career as a lecturer at the French department of the University of Manitoba, Canada, subsequently moving to Warwick University and finally to the University of Kent at Canterbury, where he taught for fifty years and held a professorship.Roger Cardinal was not only a leading authority on Outsider Art, but also on Surrealism. He was a prolific writer and a master of literary style. His eloquent, percipient writings include several books on a wide range of subjects such as Outsider Art (1972), German Romantics in Context (1975) Figures of Reality (1981), Expressionism (1984), The Landscape Vision of Paul Nash (1989), The Cultures of Collecting (1994), and Kurt Schwitters (2011). He also acted as a curator and was a regular contributor to art-historical publications.CardinalÕs interest in art lay in its margins - the neurodiverse, psychotic, uneducated, autistic, self-taught and ÔotherÕ. His fascination with artists such as the violently psychotic Adolf Wlfli lay in their creativity rather than in the sensationalism of their lives. Certainly, it did not lie in the resale value of their work. That outsider art should have its own multimillion-dollar annual fair in New York and specialist departments at ChristieÕs auctioneers ran quite contrary to CardinalÕs thinking.…