Adolf W lfli is the original outsider artist. Before Darger, Rizzoli and Rodia, there was W lfli: orphan, laborer, criminal, artist and the subject of a 1921 monograph titled A Psychiatric Patient as Artist, authored by his doctor--the first publication on an outsider artist--which won him the admiration of Andr Breton and Jean Dubuffet, and gave birth to the outsider phenomenon. "W lfli's creations treat the eye to a roller-coaster ride through...