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BOOKS AND CATALOGS

All of the books are linked to Amazon.com. There are a ton of books on folk and visionary art, but these focus almost exclusively on folk art environments. Raw Vision Magazine sells many.

Books...

• Gardens of Revelation: Environments by Visionary Artists by John Beardsley
• Self-Made Worlds: Visionary Folk Art Environments by Roger Manley and Mark Sloan
• Raw Creation: Outsider Art And Beyond by John Maizels (creator of Raw Vision Magazine )
• Fantasy Worlds by John Maizels
• Tree of Life by Rebecca Hoffberger (founder of American Visionary Art Museum)
• The End Is Near! Visions of Apocalypse, Millennium and Utopia by Dilettante Press
• Howard Finster: Stranger from Another World by Finster, Tom Patterson and Roger Manley
• Niki de Saint Phalle: The Tarot Garden by Niki de Saint Phalle etc.

Catalogs...

• Rosen, Seymour. Simon Rodia's Towers in Watts. LA County Museum of Art, 1962.
• Rosen, Seymour. I Am Alive. LA County Museum of Art, 1966.
• Rosen, Seymour. In Celebration of Ourselves. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1979.