Raw Creation: Outsider Art & Beyond

by John Maizels

Book Overview

The art of self-taught artists - including visionaries, folk creators, spiritualists, recluses, the 'mad' and the socially marginalized - was once scorned by the art establishment. Among the first to value and collect such works was the French artist Jean Dubuffet (1901-85), who coined the term Art Brut, or 'raw art'. He saw Art Brut as the purest form of creation because it was 'uncooked' by culture, touched by a raw nerve and deriving directly from...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0714840092
• ISBN13: 9780714840093
• Release Date: September 2000
• Publisher: Phaidon Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 10.5" x 11.0"
• Age Range: 13 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 8 to Postsecondary