The Book Company: New Products - Folk & Outsider Art

Contemporary Art and Disability Studies

Fri, 16 Oct 2026 16:23:03 +0000

This book presents interdisciplinary scholarship on art and visual culture that explores disability in terms of lived experience. It will expand critical disability studies scholarship on representation and embodiment, which is theoretically rich, but lacking in attention to art.

Price: $233.99

Artist as Astronaut (The Otherworldly Art of Ionel Talpazan)

Thu, 15 Oct 2026 07:34:32 +0000

A vibrant collection of artworks by, and interviews with, the Romanian-American visionary artist Ionel Talpazan.

In the early 1960s, after a terrible beating by his foster mother outside their home in rural Romania, the young Ionel Talpazan had a life-transforming vision of "a beauti..

Price: $34.95

How Folklore Shaped Modern Art (A Post-Critical History of Aesthetics)

Sat, 10 Oct 2026 22:43:47 +0000

How Folklore Shaped Modern Art: A Post-Critical History of Aesthetics underscores how the cultural traditions, belief systems and performed exchanges that were once integral to the folklore discipline are now central to contemporary art’s "post-critical turn."

Price: $249.99

Speaking with Pictures (Folk Art and the Narrative Tradition in India)

Wed, 30 Sep 2026 22:15:20 +0000

This book explores visual narratives in folk art, particularly the scroll painting tradition of the patuas of West Bengal and the Pardhan-Gond style of Madhya Pradesh. It foregrounds folk art’s engagement with modernity by re-looking at its figurative modes and the ways in which they a..

Price: $233.99

North by Northeast

Thu, 24 Sep 2026 17:30:55 +0000

For generations, Native American traditional artists in the Northeast have passed on their culture through beadwork, basketry, canoe making, wood carving, and quilting. Through the work and words of over thirty-five traditional artists living and working primarily in Maine and New York, North by N..

Price: $20.00

Singular Spaces II (From the Eccentric to the Extraordinary in Spanish Art Environments)

Tue, 08 Sep 2026 05:29:22 +0000

The most complete book on Outsider Art environments in Spain, documented by Jo Farb Hernández, director emerita of the world’s most important archives on these monumental sites.

This two-volume set marks Jo Farb Hernández’s fifty years of scholarship on art environments and..

Price: $350.00

Album Of American Traditions (Folk Art Paintings of Carol Dyer)

Fri, 04 Sep 2026 14:37:51 +0000

This version is a signed and numbered limited edition of 250. It comes with a gold embossed slipcase and full color dust jacket.Popular folk artist Carol Dyer here describes the inspirations and techniques that make her colorful paintings so engaging. Divided into sections celebrating American por..

Price: $100.00

Black Dolls

Wed, 12 Aug 2026 01:33:56 +0000

This book presents over one hundred unique handmade African American dolls made between 1850 and 1940 from the collection of Deborah Neff, a Connecticut-based collector and champion of vernacular art. It is believed that African Americans created these dolls for the children in their lives, inclu..

Price: $60.00

On the Matter of Memory (The Drawings of Harold Cromwell)

Sat, 25 Jul 2026 21:26:18 +0000

Born in 1919 in the Black community of Weymouth Falls, Nova Scotia, Harold Cromwell was a descendant of the Black Loyalists who settled in the area in 1783. He was also a prolific folk artist with an acute talent for observation. His meticulous, textured pen and ink illustrations — ..

Price: $35.00

Mystical Creatures of Ancient China (100 Fantastic Beasts from Shan Hai Jing)

Mon, 15 Jun 2026 09:31:47 +0000

Step into an enchanted world where China's ancient myths meet captivating artistry – 100 creatures reimagined from the timeless Shan Hai Jing.

Award-winning illustrator Lin Hai reimagines China's oldest mythological encyclopaedia dating from the Zhou..

Price: $45.00