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List Price: $14.99Amazon.com's Price: $10.19 You Save: $4.80 (32%)Prices subject to change.
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 745
EAN: 9783822832196
Format: Illustrated
ISBN: 3822832197
Label: Taschen
Manufacturer: Taschen
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 236
Publication Date: July 01, 2007
Publisher: Taschen
Sales Rank: 222777
Studio: Taschen
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One day, Ferdinand Cheval, a French postman, came across a stone at Hauterives near Lyon, and was fascinated by its strange, evocative shape. He spent the next three decades collecting stones, shells, and fossils, and used them to build the Palais ideal. Cheval's palace is one of many works of architectural fantasy in this book, the result of over 20 years' research by celebrated architectural photographer Deidi von Schaewen. Like Cheval, the creators of these extraordinary worlds simply started building, with no rules to guide them and, in most cases, no previous artistic experience. These fantasy palaces, bizarre sanctuaries, and colorful sculpture gardens seldom follow a plan. Often the artists continued building for many years, sometimes until their dying day. Their work is impossible to categorise: Art brut, architecture with-out architects, self-taught art, fantasy architecture in the tradition of Piranesi, non-academic architecture, Outsider Art - none of these definitions quite encapsulates this worldwide phenomenon. Eccentric hideaways like the Tour de l'Apocalypse in Belgium, the Junkerhaus at Lemgo or the Owl House in South Africa appear alongside Simon Rodia's Watts Towers, which dominate the cityscape of Los Angeles. To venture into this world is to immerse oneself in the collective unconscious. The addresses of sites open to the public are listed in the appendix.
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I love it!
If you are an eccentric gardener with an artistic streak,or and eccentric artist with a gardening streak,or someone who likes to recycle ceramics into a living garden,(or just a plain and ordinary person who may not be plain and ordinary-hence,why are you looking at this book)?
Oh Heck- buy this neat publication! It's ten buckaroos,with millions of ideas!
If you love "outsider art" then you have no excuse to not get this publication.
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Beautifully photographed and well documented book of unusual structures. Got me hooked on the topic of "outsider constructions". Thanks for the inspiration.
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Fantasy Worlds is worth at least twice its price. It is a showy, large-format hard-cover "coffee table" art photography book worthy of purchase for yourself or as a gift.
Its 340 pages are crammed with full-page photos of bright and saucy gems of personal architecture. The subject matter consists of the creations of untrained visionaries who are obsessed with the desire to decorate and embellish their dwellings.
The book features 73 environmental creations -- 37 in Europe, ... Read More
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