Visionary Environment Artists Bibliography

Overview

-Detour Art by Kelly Ludwig. (brief overview of US folk and visionary environment artists)

-Self Made Worlds: Visionary Folk Environments by Mark Sloan and Roger Manley. (better book than above, more in depth.)

-"Living for Folk Art, and in It, Too." New York Times.

Dick Proenneke (cabin in Alaska, PBS documentry):

-One Man's Wilderness: One Man's Alaskan Odyssey by Sam Keith and Richard Proenneke. (this is available free online).

-More Readings from One Man's Wilderness. http://www.cr.nps.gov/history/online_books/lacl/proenneke.pdf (more of Proenneke's journal free online).

-Alone in the Wilderness, PBS film, 2004.

-"Dick Proenneke." Alone in the Wilderness.

-"Proenneke's Cabin." National Park Service.

Samuel Dinsmoor (The Garden of Eden, Meg showed us):

-"S.P. Dinsmoor's Garden of Eden." Garden of Eden Lucas, Kansas.

-"Samuel P. Dinsmoor." Kansas Historical Society.

Helen Martins (The Owl House in S. Africa):

-"The Owl House, Nieu-Bethesda, S. Africa: Created by Helen Martins." PBS.

-"Owl House: Recluse's Masterpiece." South Africa: Gateway to the Nation.

Edward Leedskalnin (The Coral Castle):

-"Who's Ed?" Coral Castle.

-"Edward Leedskalnin." Keelynet.

Enoch Tanner Wickham (concrete statue park):

-"E.T. Wickham: A Dream Unguarded." Custom House Museum.

-"Park." Wickham Stone Park.

Ferdinand Cheval:

-"Palais Ideal, Hauterives, France: A Fantasy Castle." Unusual Travel Destinations.