In the early 20th-century, European avant-garde artists began to look beyond the accepted canons of Western art in a search for new sources of inspiration. "Primitive" art, drawings by children, the art of the insane, and graffiti all opened up new avenues for experimentation and artistic creation. At the end of World War II, leading French artist Jean Dubuffet became interested in the works being produced by psychiatric patients and by other social outcasts. In 1948 he founded the Compagnie de l'Art Brut to document the collections he had begun, and in 1976 the collection moved to its permanent home in Lausanne. This critically acclaimed book traces the history of the concept of Art Brut, a movement which has had a profound effect on artistic and social history. The account is completed by biographical notes on the featured artists and an extensive bibliography. This revised edition contains up-to-date information about modern exponents of Art Brut and the collection itself, including two new images of artist Judith Scott's work. All the works reproduced, most from the collection created by Dubuffet, have retained their subversive freedom, which continues to fascinate and inspire artists and collectors today.
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Lucienne Peiry is Director of the Collection de l'Art Brut in Lausanne, Switzerland, the world's most important grouping of Art Brut works. She wrote Nek Chand's Outsider Art: The Rock Garden of Chandigarh (Flammarion, 2005). James Frank has a Master of Fine Arts degree in literary translation. He is a professor at St. Clair County Community College in Port Huron, Michigan.
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This book is a treasury of Outsider Art - Fantastic,
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OMG what can I say? I've been into this type of art for 20 years and have collected many book on this genre. This book is full of images and biographies of the most famous artists, also gives the reader a very in-depth over view of Art Brut and it's branches. I'm buy this book as gifts for my art friends. A real keeper for the library & great for jump starting ideas.
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Art Brut: A lesson in watching Art,
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This catalogue will open the American public's eyes for Raw Art which is not American rooted.
They will learn and get excited.
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