Way Out There
Inside the Jargon Society, Late-20th-century America's most curious cultural outfit and its Raiders of the Lost Art
Published on 15. June 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
266 pages
978-1-963908-10-7 (ISBN)
Description
"Patterson seemingly had a hand in every outlet of creative expression all over the South.... In this book he hews closely to his seven years in Georgia's capital city, when he embarked on projects that eventually made him a go-to authority on visionary art.... Patterson clearly has a kind of internal divining rod that dependably leads him toward worthwhile weirdos."
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Language
English
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 133 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
339 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-963908-10-7 (9781963908107)
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Tom Patterson is writer, editor, and independent curator based in North Carolina. His books include St. EOM in the Land of Pasaquan (Jargon Society, 1987; University of Georgia Press, 2018), Howard Finster, Stranger from Another World (Abbeville Press, 1989), and The Tom Patterson Years: Cultural Adventures of a Fledgling Scribe (Hiding Press, 2021). His writings have appeared in afterimage, American Crafts, Aperture, ARTnews, Art Papers, BOMB, Folk Art, and New Art Examiner. A frequent, longtime contributor to Raw Vision, the London-based international outsider-art journal, he is also a former editor of North Carolina's Arts Journal (1988-1990), and a former visual-art columnist for the Charlotte Observer (1992-1998) and the Winston-Salem Journal (1988-2022). He has curated exhibitions for the American Visionary Art Museum, the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, and the College of Charleston's Halsey Institute for Contemporary Art, among other visual-art institutions.