Tag: Outsider Art
Denis Wood is an obscure cartographer who approaches mapmaking as a form of abstract art — “the map as poem.” A new documentary, Unmappable, hopes to bring a greater spotlight to Wood’s work while dealing with the uncomfortable fact that Wood is a registered sex offender. Predominantly working in his own neighborhood in Raleigh, North Carolina, Wood […]
Forty-four years after its recording and thirty-three years after its release, the Shaggs Philosophy of the World remains one of the strangest and most beguiling examples of outsider music ever put to tape. The Shaggs, three sisters who only started a band at their father’s insistence, wrote bizarre, non-repeating melodies that often veered from saccharinely poppy to […]
