A beautifully produced book cataloguing some of the remarkable American
"Outsider Art" in the collection of Janice and Mickey Cartin. These
works,
with their brash, eccentric vitality, reveal an alternative portrait of
the
nation's inner life, unrestrained by art school conventions.

With 60 color plates featuring the work of:
Hannelore Baron
James Barsness
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Peter Attie (Peter Charlie) Besharo
Forrest Bess
Joe Coleman
Bruce Conner
Joseph Cornell
Alan Davie
Tony Fitzpatrick
Walton Ford
Gregory Gillespie
Mark Greenwold
George Herms
Chris Hipkiss
Alfred Jensen
Bill Jensen
Jess
John Kane
Paul Laffoley
James Lloyd

Robert Lostutter
Kasimir Severinovich Malevich
Sam Messer
Wes Mills
Odd Nerdrum
Leonid Purygin
Martin Ramirez
Friedrich Schröder-Sonnenstern
Jenny Scobel
Fred Stonehouse
Myron Stout
Bob Thompson
Fred Romaselli
Bill Traylor
Perley M. Wentworth
Horace Clifford Westermann
Adolf Wolfli
Joseph Yoakum
Albert York
Anna Zemankova

80 pp., Oversized (8.5" x 11"), 28 color plates, April 1997.
ISBN 0963843397
This catalog was printed on the occasion of the exhibition:
In Pursuit of the Invisible, Selections from the Collection of Janice
and
Mickey Cartin, at the Sue and Eugene Mercy, Jr. Gallery, The Richmond Art Center, Loomis Chaffee School, Windsor, Connecticut, May 20 – June