At the turn of the twentieth century, members of the European avant-garde began looking beyond the accepted canons of Western art in the search of new sources of inspiration: "primitive" art, children's drawing, art of the insane, automatism, and graffiti all became new reference points which gradually found their way into modern art. This paved the way for the leading French modern artist Jean Dubuffet who, at the end of the Second World War, became interested in artworks by patients in psychiatric hospital, and by other social outcasts, including self-taught artists and prisoners. Their spontaneous creativity seemed to provide a new way out of the "suffocation" of accepted culture. In
1948, Dubuffet founded the Art Brut society, whose purpose was to add to collections of this marginal art already begun by Dubuffet during two trips to Switzerland in the preceding years. Among the first artists to be "discovered" by Dubuffet were Wölfli, Aloïse, and Müller, now recognized as leading figures of what was later to become known as "outsider art." Lucienne Peiry retraces here the extraordinary story of the founding of the Art Brut society, and the lives of the artists whose work the society promoted. Thoroughly documented and illustrated, her study is both exhaustive and compelling, and provides information and material essential to all those interested in outsider art-amateurs, students and scholars.
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