ISBN: 9780691024660

In 1912 Paul Klee declared that the art of the mentally ill, as well as the art of children, really should be taken far more seriously than are the collections of all our art museums if w… Meer...

In 1912 Paul Klee declared that the art of the mentally ill, as well as the art of children, really should be taken far more seriously than are the collections of all our art museums if we truly intend to reform today''s art. What Klee found most fascinating and instructive about the art of outsiders--those self-taught individuals, sometimes mentally disturbed, who create while isolated from mainstream culture--was the sincerity, depth, and power of their un-adulterated, unmediated expressions. Parallel Visions, an exhibition and catalogue organized and produced by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, reveals the considerable influence that outsider art has had on the development of twentieth-century art. The work of such marginalized artists and compulsive visionaries as Antonin Artaud, Ferdinand Cheval, Henry Darger, Howard Finster, Madge Gill, Martin Ram!rez, P. M. Wentworth, Adolf Wlfli, and Joseph Yoakum is juxtaposed with the work of devotees of outsider art among modern artists. Essays by the curators of the exhibition, Maurice Tuchman and Carol S. Eliel, and by other commentators offer a history of this phenomenon as well as an exploration of issues crucial to the formation of our aesthetic and critical judgments and our notions of creativity. In addition to the curators, the contributors include Russell Bowman, Roger Cardinal, Barbara Freeman, Sander L. Gilman, Mark Gisbourne, Reinhold Heller, John M. MacGregor, Donald Preziosi, Allen Weiss, Jonathan Williams, and Sarah Wilson. Maurice Tuchman, Carol S. Eliel, Books, Art and Architecture, Parallel Visions: Modern Artists and Outsider Art Books>Art and Architecture, Princeton University Press<

ISBN: 0691024669

Paperback, [EAN: 9780691024660], Princeton University Press, Princeton University Press, Book, [PU: Princeton University Press], 1992-11-19, Princeton University Press, 91, Arts & Photogr… Meer...

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