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Edward M. Gómez

Edward M. Gómez is a graphic designer, critic, arts journalist, and author or co-author of numerous books about art and design subjects, including Le dictionnaire de la civilisation japonaise, Yes: Yoko Ono, and The Art of Adolf Wölfli: St. Adolf-Giant-Creation. He has written for the New York Times, Art in America, the Brooklyn Rail, Salon, Reforma (Mexico), the Japan Times (Japan), and other publications. Edward is the senior editor of Raw Vision, the London-based, international, outsider-art magazine. He is based in New York and London.

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Rediscovering Edward Melcarth, a Gay, Communist Visionary

by Edward M. Gómez February 10, 2018February 9, 2018

Kentucky-born artist Edward Melcarth dared to live as an openly homosexual man and did not hide his support for communism.

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The Visible Language of Outsider Art

by Edward M. Gómez January 20, 2018January 19, 2018

Vestiges & Verse: Notes from the Newfangled Epic, an exhibition of illustrated texts by self-taught artists, feels so intimate that it seems to enter the creative process itself.

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The 2018 Outsider Art Fair, a Preview

by Edward M. Gómez January 13, 2018January 13, 2018

Celebrating art made by autodidacts situated, by choice or circumstance, on the margins of culture and society.

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An Illuminating History of Modern Graphic Design

by Edward M. Gómez December 30, 2017December 30, 2017

The Brooklyn-based publishing company, Standards Manual, has produced a series of meticulously crafted facsimiles of design manuals, from the New York City Subway to NASA.

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The Atmospheric, Earthy Art of Ignacio Iturria

by Edward M. Gómez December 23, 2017December 23, 2017

Iturria’s art is shot through with melancholy, nostalgia, romance, gentle humor, and an abiding sense of curiosity about what makes people tick.

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The Making of a Modernist in the First-Ever Biography of Alexander Calder

by Edward M. Gómez December 16, 2017December 16, 2017

Jed Perl makes the case that Calder was both an avant-gardist and a populist.

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In Japan, Issei Nishimura Paints the Blues

by Edward M. Gómez December 9, 2017December 9, 2017

Nishimura paints, plays music, and enjoys the companionship of his cats, but rarely ventures out.

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In New Photo Books, a Strong Sense of Place

by Edward M. Gómez November 18, 2017November 17, 2017

Three new photography books explore a sweep of places and events from Cuba to the studio floor.

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Japan’s Tattoo Art, in Classic Woodblock Prints

by Edward M. Gómez November 4, 2017November 3, 2017

Ukiyo-e artists produced woodblock prints incorporating depictions of tattooed bodies that told personal stories of their own.

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An Artist Who Fantasized as a Way to Survive

by Edward M. Gómez October 28, 2017October 27, 2017

A self-taught draftsman and fantastical storyteller, Renaldo Kuhler’s life and fashion sense were as eccentric as his art.

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The Turbulent History of Global Chinese Art

by Edward M. Gómez October 14, 2017October 14, 2017

The Guggenheim Museum’s Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World presents the conceptual and performance practices that brought Chinese artists into the discourse of global contemporary art.

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Artist-Built Environments to Rescue and Preserve

by Edward M. Gómez October 7, 2017October 6, 2017

How much does the long-term care of such projects cost, and who should pay for it?

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