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Outsider Art

by Jean-Louis Ferrier

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"Outsider Art deals with the twin themes of art brut and psychiatric art and takes us to the very source of the creative act." "But what is psychiatric art? How do we define art brut? In what way can both be distinguished from "cultural" art? And why do we find such works perpetually challenging? The author sets out to answer questions such as these by presenting and analyzing the agonized, reconstructed world of more than thirty artists ranging from nowadays famous names like Wolfli or Aloise to lesser known figures of equally astonishing talent."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved… (more)

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