Art Brut The Origins of Outsider Art

Name: Art Brut The Origins of Outsider Art
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ISBN: 9782080305435

ISBN-10: 2080305433

ISBN-13: 9782080305435

Edition: 2nd 2006 (Revised)

Authors: Lucienne Peiry, James Frank

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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,…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Flammarion et Cie
Publication date: 9/5/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.584
Language: English

Lucienne Peiry is an art historian. She works for various art periodicals and as a journalist for Swiss radio. This work is based on her doctoral thesis on the Art Brut collection of the city of Lausanne in Switzerland.




The other and the elsewhere



The first art Brut venture



New York and Vence



The rebirth of the Compagnie De L'art Brut



An antimuseum



Affinities and influences