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Author Espinosa, Victor M., author.

Title Martín Ramírez : framing his life and art / Víctor M. Espinosa.

Publication Info. Austin : University of Texas Press, 2015.

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Location Call No. Status
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Gallery  759.972 RAMIREZ E    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description xi, 298 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of color plates : illustrations ; 27 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-286) and index.
Contents Introducing Martín Ramírez : a transnational migrant worker from Los Altos de Jalisco -- "Disordered in mind" : Ramírez's involuntary seclusion -- Art inside a total institution -- A psychotic artist or the Mexican Henri Rousseau? -- Marketing and constructing the reputation of an outsider master -- The enigma of Martín Ramírez.
Summary "Martín Ramírez, a Mexican migrant worker and psychiatric patient without formal artistic training, has been hailed by leading New York art critics as one of the twentieth century's greatest artists. His work has been exhibited alongside masters such as José Clemente Orozco, Diego Rivera, Rufino Tamayo, Salvador Dalí, Marc Chagall, Paul Klee, and Joan Miró... Víctor Espinosa challenges the stereotype of outsider art as an indecipherable enigma by delving into Ramírez's biography and showing how he transformed memories of his life in Mexico, as well as his experiences of displacement and seclusion in the United States, into powerful works of art. Espinosa then traces the reception of Ramírez's work, from its first anonymous showings in the 1950s to contemporary exhibitions and individual works that have sold for as much as a half-million dollars. This eloquently told story reveals how Ramírez's three-decades-long incarceration in California psychiatric institutions and his classification as "chronic paranoid schizophrenic" stigmatized yet also protected what his hands produced. Stripping off the labels "psychotic artist" and "outsider master," Martín Ramírez demonstrates that his drawings are not passive manifestations of mental illness. Although he drew while confined as a psychiatric patient, the formal elements and content of Ramírez's artwork are shaped by his experiences of cultural and physical displacement." -- Publisher's description
Subject Ramírez, Martín, 1895-1963.
Mexican American artists -- Biography.
Artists with mental disabilities -- United States -- Biography.
Foreign workers, Mexican -- United States -- Biography.
Outsider artists -- Mexico -- Biography.
Outsider artists -- California -- Biography.
Ramírez, Martín, 1895-1963. (OCoLC)fst01718320
Foreign workers, Mexican. (OCoLC)fst01729163
Artists with mental disabilities. (OCoLC)fst00817657
Mexican American artists. (OCoLC)fst01018932
Outsider artists. (OCoLC)fst01742720
California. (OCoLC)fst01204928
Mexico. (OCoLC)fst01211700
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
ISBN 9781477307755 (cloth) (alk. paper)
1477307753 (cloth) (alk. paper)
9781477307915 (library e-book)
9781477307922 (non-library e-book)
Sudoc No. Z UA380.8 ES656ma txdocs
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