Outsider ArtOutsider Art deals with the twin themes of art brut and psychiatric art and takes us to the very source of the creative act. But what is psychiatric art? How do we define art brut? In what way can both be distinguished from "cultural" art? And why do we find such works perpetually challenging? The author sets out to answer questions such as these by presenting and analyzing the agonized, reconstructed world of more than thirty artists ranging from nowadays famous names like Wolfli or Aloise to lesser known figures of equally astonishing talent. |
Contents
Portraying lifes precarity | 44 |
In the beginning was the eye | 54 |
Saint Adolf II emperor of the gigantic | 76 |
Copyright | |
8 other sections not shown
Common terms and phrases
Achères-La-Forêt ADOLF WÖLFLI Aloïse Aloïse's ANDRÉ BAUCHANT ANTONIO LIGABUE Art Brut Arts Museum asylum AUGUST KLOTZ AUGUST NETER AUGUSTIN LESAGE Bern cantonal des beaux-arts Chomo coloured pencils communauté urbaine composition creative depicts deposit Detail dolls Drôme department earth and pigments eyes face FACTEUR CHEVAL figures FRANZ POHL GASTON CHAISSAC giant gouache on paper hand Hans Prinzhorn Hauterives head Heidelberg University human insane Jean Dubuffet JOSEPH SELL Klee l'abbaye Sainte-Croix L'Aracine Collection l'art brut Lausanne lead pencil Les Sables-d'Olonne LOUIS SOUTTER madness mentally ill MICHEL NEDJAR UNTITLED Musée cantonal Musée d'art moderne Musée de l'abbaye North façade oil on canvas painter Palais idéal Paris patients pencils on drawing pencils on paper Picasso pictorial Porret-Forel portrayed Prinzhorn Collection Private Collection psychiatric psychotic art psychotic artists RAPHAËL LONNÉ Sables-d'Olonne scenes Seine-et-Marne self-portraits sexual symbolism TERRAIL tree UNTITLED Before 1986 urbaine de Lille Village Villeneuve-d'Ascq watercolour Watts Towers Wittlich