Author: Richard Wright
Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Keywords: outsider
Number of Pages: 672
Published: 2008-05-01
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0061450170
ISBN-13: 9780061450174
Cross Damon is a man at odds with society and with himselfa man of superior intellect who hungers for peace but who brings terror and destruction wherever he goes. From Richard Wright, one of the most powerful, acclaimed, and essential American authors of the twentieth century, comes a compelling story of a black man’s attempt to escape his past and start anew in Harlem. The Outsider is an important work of fiction that depicts American racism and its devastating consequences in raw and unflinching terms. At once brilliantly imagined and frighteningly prescient, it is an epic explorati
Author: Richard Wright
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Keywords: outsider
Number of Pages: 672
Published: 2003-08-01
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0060539259
ISBN-13: 9780060539252
Wright presents a compelling story of a black man’s attempt to escape his past and start anew in Harlem. Cross Damon is a man at odds with society and with himself, a man who hungers for peace but who brings terror and destruction wherever he goes.As Maryemma Graham writes in her Introduction to this edition, with its restored text established by the Library of America, "The Outsider is Richard Wright’s second installment in a story of epic proportions, a complex master narrative designed to show American racism in raw and ugly terms ... The stories of Bigger Thomas ... and Cross D
Author: Joe Mackall
Publisher: Beacon Pre
Keywords: amish, among, outsider, secrets, plain
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 2008-06-15
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0807010650
ISBN-13: 9780807010655
Plain Secrets tells the story of Joe Mackalls long friendship with his Swartzentruber Amish neighbors, the Shetlers, to create a nuanced portrait of this most traditional Amish sect. Mackall does the job beautifully, painting an intimate portrait of the family that leaves the reader feeling humbled by the common thread thats woven into all of us. Sarah English, Cleveland Magazine"Prose as graceful as it is unsentimental . . . Mackall doesn’t sensationalize, romanticize, or condescend." Brigid Brett, Los Angeles Times "The book points to a difficult truth: A religious community is b
Author: Melinda Metz
Publisher: Simon Spotlight Entertainment
Keywords: series, outsider, roswell
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 1999-11-01
List price: $5.99
ISBN-10: 0671774662
ISBN-13: 9780671774660
He’s not like other guys. Liz has seen him around. It’s hard to miss Max -- the tall, blond, blue-eyed senior stands out in her high-school crowd. So why is he such a loner? Max is in love with Liz. He loves the way her eyes light up when she laughs. And the way her long, black hair moves when she turns her head. Most of all, he loves to imagine what it would be like to kiss her. But Max knows he can’t get too close. He can’t let her discover the truth about who he is. Or really, "what" he is.... Because the truth could kill her.
Author: Peter Gay
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Keywords: insider, outsider, culture, weimar
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2001-12
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0393322394
ISBN-13: 9780393322392
A seminal work as melodious and haunting as the era it chronicles, now reissued with a new introduction.First published in 1968, Weimar Culture is one of the masterworks of Peter Gay’s distinguished career. A study of German culture between the two wars, the book brilliantly traces the rise of the artistic, literary, and musical culture that bloomed ever so briefly in the 1920s amid the chaos of Germany’s tenuous post-World War I democracy, and crashed violently in the wake of Hitler’s rise to power. Despite the ephemeral nature of the Weimar democracy, the influence of its c
Author: Colin Rhode
Publisher: Thames & Hudso
Keywords: art, world, alternatives, spontaneous, outsider
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2000-04-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0500203342
ISBN-13: 9780500203347
Outsider Art is work produced outside the mainstream of modern art by self-taught, untrained visionaries, spiritualists, eccentric recluses, folk artists, psychiatric patients, criminals, and others beyond the imposed margins of society and the art market. Coined by Roger Cardinal in 1972, the term in English derived from Jean Dubuffet’s "art brut"--literally "raw art," "uncooked" by culture, unaffected by fashion, unmoved by artistic standards. In this indispensable book Colin Rhodes surveys the history and reception of Outsider Art--first championed by Dubuffet and the Surrealists, now
Author: Greg Bottom
Publisher: University of Chicago Pre
Keywords: art, outsider, journeys, apocalypse, colorful
Number of Pages: 182
Published: 2007-01-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0226066878
ISBN-13: 9780226066875
The Reverend Howard Finster was twenty feet tall, suspended in darkness. Or so he appeared in the documentary film that introduced a teenaged Greg Bottoms to the renowned outsider artist whose death would help inspire him, fourteen years later, to travel the country. Beginning in Georgia with a trip to Finsters famous Paradise Gardens, his journeyof which The Colorful Apocalypse is a masterly chronicleis an unparalleled look into the lives and visionary works of some of Finsters contemporaries: the self-taught evangelical artists whose beliefs and oeuvres occupy the gray area between madne
