Outsider Art Outsider Art: A Definition My first encounter with the phrase Outsider Art being used to describe a specific selection of art and artists was in 1972, in the excellent book of the same name by Roger Cardinal. I have come to use the phrase Outsider Art to refer to the creative work of artists who are self-taught and/or those who, for a variety of reasons, are what I consider fortunately impervious to being taught how to make art. It now includes all of the following: The naive, the innocent, the self-taught, the visionary, the intuitive, the eccentric; The schizophrenic, the developmentally disabled, the psychotic, the obsessive, the compulsive. The French artist Jean Dubuffet is perhaps more responsible than anyone else for our current awareness of what we now call Outsider Art. Additional Definitions It seems to me that what all these types of expression have in common is that they all are more or less outside the hierarchy and mainstream of Western and/or Classical art history.
Espace d'Art Contemporain Fernet Branca - BIENVENUE " PIECES MONTREES FRAC ALSACE, 30 YEARS COLLECTING - The Impossible Collection " Curators : Olivier Grasser and Roland Recht 20 october 2013 - 23 March 2014 In 2013, the Fracs (French regional contemporary art collections) are celebrating their 30th anniversary. This anniversary is a chance for Fracs all over France to assert their presence and their missions through specific events, not only in the regional context but also at national and international levels. A part of this programme is a wide-ranging, institutionally orientated exhibition being held concurrently over 4 sites under the title Pièces Montrées – Frac Alsace, 30 years collecting. The Fernet-Branca Foundation site, the largest in the exhibition " Pièces Montrées - Frac Alsace, 30 years collecting" has the advantage of providing a choice from the Frac collection that is both far-reaching and complex. Find out more : Artists:
Raw Vision See also => Raw Vision's Definitions The first inkling of the existence of Outsider Art emerged from the work of a few enlightened psychiatrists in the mid and late nineteenth century. Gradually it became clear that some psychiatric patients were spontaneously producing artworks - often on found scraps of paper - of unusual quality and power. By 1922 Dr Hans Prinzhorn in Germany published the first serious study of psychiatric works, Bildnerei der Geisteskranken (The Artistry of the Insane), after amassing a collection of several thousand examples from European institutions. At the same time Dr Walter Morgenthaler published the first study of a single psychiatric patient's work, Adolf Wölfli, a patient at his Swiss asylum. It was Jean Dubuffet who realised that spontaneous, original and uninfluenced creation was not just the preserve of the mentally ill. For the first time a name was given to this genre, 'Art Brut'. See also >> Raw Vision's Definitions
Strasbourg Art contemporain Accueil - Strasbourg Art contemporain Outsider Art .info ... Outsider Art Online Exhibition Gallery El bestialismo y sus monstruosos engendros En su clásico Lenguaje y silencio, George Steiner dejó escrito que en el terreno amoroso “las cosas fundamentalmente han sido iguales desde que el hombre por primera vez conoció a la cabra y a la mujer”. Siendo uno de los intelectuales más destacados del siglo XX probablemente tendrá razón en lo esencial de tal afirmación… pero creo que le faltan unos cuantos animales a la lista, tal como veremos en los abundantes ejemplos que la mitología, la literatura y el cine nos ha regalado sobre el amor a los animales. Por mi origen vasco la zoofilia o bestialismo nunca me ha resultado algo ajeno, dada la secular carencia de hembras predispuestas para la coyunda que padece esta tribu y su abundancia, en cambio, de vacas y ovejas. Pero en líneas generales está claro que para el conjunto de la humanidad también ha sido siempre una opción. Solo falta precisar a qué clase de relación nos estamos refiriendo cuando hablamos de bestialismo y entre quiénes tiene lugar. Híbridos interespecies