Achilles Gildo Rizzoli (1896–1981), anonymous during his lifetime, has since his death become celebrated as an
outsider
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Film
* ''Outsider'' (1997 film), a 1997 Slovene-language film
* ''Outsider'' (2012 film), a Malayalam-language Indian film
* ''Outsiders'' (1980 film), a South Korean film featuring Won Mi-kyung
Literature
* Outside ...
artist. He is an unusual example of an "outsider" artist who had considerable formal training in drawing.
Born in
Point Reyes, California, Rizzoli lived in
San Francisco
San Francisco (; Spanish for " Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the fourth most populous in California and 17th ...
, where he was employed as an architectural draftsman. In the 1930s he showed his work in exhibits held in his home, which he called the Achilles Tectonic Exhibit Portfolio (A.T.E.P.)
After his death, a group of elaborate drawings came to light, many in the form of maps and architectural renderings that described an imaginary world exposition (much of which was designated "Y.T.T.E.", for "Yield To Total Elation").
The drawings include "portraits" of his mother (whom he lived with until her death in 1937) and neighborhood children "symbolically sketched" in the form of fanciful
neo-baroque buildings.
Rizzoli published one novel, ''The Colonnade'' (1931), under the pseudonym Peter Metermaid.
A film was made about his life and work, called ''Yield to Total Elation: The Life and Art of Achilles Rizzoli''.
External links
Web site for the film ''Yield to Total Elation''*
ttp://www.popsubculture.com/pop/bio_project/a_g_rizzoli.html Achilles G. Rizzoli : biography, bibliography, filmography, linksat the Biography Project, popsubculture.com.
References
*Jo Farb Hernandez; John Beardsley; Roger Cardinal. ''A. G. Rizzoli: Architect of Magnificent Visions''.
Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1997. (trade cloth binding) and (paperback).
*Sarah F. Maclaren (2007).
L'architettura magnifica di Achilles G. Rizzoli. ''Ágalma. Rivista di studi culturali e di estetica'', 14, 2007: 42–57. . In Italian.
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1896 births
1981 deaths
20th-century American artists
Outsider artists
Artists from San Francisco
People from Point Reyes, California
20th-century American novelists
American male novelists
Writers from San Francisco
20th-century American male writers
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