Art Brut (3rd Edition)

(Hardback, Third edition)

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This extensively updated and expanded edition of the groundbreaking and critically acclaimed reference features sixty new artists. Since Jean Dubuffet coined the term "art brut" in the late 1940s, this fascinating but previously neglected area of art has gained increasing prominence in the art world. This extensively updated edition leads us through the riveting and complex history of Art Brut; including the personal stories of the Art Brut creators, and how their experiences were brought into the limelight from the margins of society, asylums, hermitages, prisons, and retirement homes. Key artists include: Martn Ramrez, Henry Darger, Bill Traylor, Nek Chand, Adolf Wlfli, Alose Corbaz, Gaston Chaissac, Louis Soutter, Scottie Wilson, Madge Gill, Johann Hauser, August Walla, and Oswald Tschirtner, Kashinath Chawan, Agnes Richter, and Angus McPhee. Complete with nearly 500 works of art spanning over 150 years across the globe-from the United States, Europe, China, Japan, Bali, Ghana, and Brazil-this text is a thoughtful and insightful study of an astonishing art form. Exhibition schedule for 20202021: - Art Brut in the World: 500 works: Powerstation of Art, Shanghai, China, 3 Julyend September 2020 - 3331 Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan, 17 Julyend September 2020 - Museum Lentos, Linz, Austria, December 2020March 2021 - Kunstmuseum Thun, Switzerland, AprilJuly 2021

Author Bio

Lucienne Peiry is exhibition commissioner at the Collection de l'Art Brut in Lausanne, Switzerland, and author of several books on Art Brut, including Nek Chand's Outsider Art (Flammarion, 2005) and Collection de l'Art Brut (Skira-Flammarion/ Collection de l'Art Brut, 2012). James Frank teaches at St. Clair County Community College in Port Huron, Michigan.