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Dear Mr. Ripley: A Compendium of Curioddities from the Believe It or Not! Archives

Humor & Entertainment

Sloan, Mark

Manley, Roger

Van Parys, Michelle

Ripley, Robert Le Roy

Humor

Bulfinch Pr

You'll Never Believe It: A Compendium of Curioddities from the Bizarre World of Ripley's "Believe It or Not" Archives

Reference

Virgin Books

The exhibition 'Signs and Wonders: Outsider Art Inside North Carolina' focuses exclusively on outsider art and artists in the state. Most of the artists are unknown beyond their communities and a small circle of enthusiastic admirers, and very few have ever before had their work exhibited in a major museum. The primary purposes of the exhibition are to bring this art out of the shadows, and to document it and bring it to the attention of a much wider audience through the catalogue. In organizing the exhibition and selecting the art, emphasis has been placed on work that demonstrates the remarkable quality and variety of outsider art in North Carolina. Outsider art is found everywhere in the state, from Currituck Sound to the Smoky Mountains. The sheer number is astonishing; approximately 100 are listed in the catalogue, and there were several others whom it proved impossible to locate or even identify. We hope that these works will engage, challenge, and encourage people to play closer attention to the world around them as they drive down the road or walk through their neighborhoods.

Signs and Wonders: Outsider Art Inside North Carolina

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Univ of North Carolina Pr

The Girl In The Yellow Raincoat

St. Andrews College Press

A. R. Ammons has called Shelby Stephenson "the poet par excellence of the distinctive culture of Southeastern North Carolina. He sings the moods of the mockingbird, ditch bank, tobacco field with an accuracy and fullness unavailable elsewhere, saving a way of life for us even as it is passing."Shelby Stephenson in Plankhouse focuses on growing up on the coastal plains of eastern North Carolina in the 1940s and 1950s. He describes the rapidly disappearing rural life in a series of short, intensely visualized sketches.Photographer Roger Manley uses a wide-angle panoramic camera to photograph the flat, limited vistas of the coastal plains that provided the context for Stephenson's vignettes. The resulting book balances image and word.

Plankhouse: Poems and Photographs

Literature & Fiction

Stephenson, Shelby

Poetry

North Carolina Wesleyan

Beautiful catalogue, inaugural publication to mark the opening of the American Visionary Arts Museum, 1996, Baltimore, Maryland. 9.5" x 9.5", softcover in barkpaper covers with gilt titles (the manufacture of the barkpaper used on the cover of this catalogue is the craftwork of the Otomi Indian tribe). 254 pp., vibrant glossy photographs throughout in color and b/w.

Tree of Life: The Inaugural Exhibition of the American Visionary Art Museum

Hoffberger, Rebecca

American Visionary Art Museum

Wilson,Colin

"This timely, fascinating book collects color reproductions of work by 58 artists that depict religious, cosmic and often quite psychotic visions of fantastic worlds and states of mind."--Publishers Weekly. "Judging from this images in this book, things are going to end not with a whimper but a bang."--Time Out.

End Is Near!, The

Finster, Howard

Dilettante Press

Art without Artists was published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same title curated by John Foster and Roger Manley for the Gregg Museum of Art &amp; Design, September 27 through December 16, 2012.

Art without Artists

Foster, John

NC State University Gregg Museum of Art and Design

Farfetched: Mad Science, Fringe Architecture and Visionary Engineering was published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same title curated by Tom Patterson and Roger Manley for the Gregg Museum of Art & Design, January 17 through April 26, 2013.

Farfetched: Mad Science, Fringe Architecture and Visionary Engineering

Patterson, Tom

Traces: Mapping a Journey in Textiles was published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same title curated by Barbara Lee Smith for the Gregg Museum of Art &amp; Design, January 20 through May 14, 2011.

Traces: Mapping a Journey in Textiles

Turchi, Peter

Ennis, Lynn Jones

Gregg Museum of Art and Design, NC State University

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