JEAN DUBUFFET/ ANTICULTURAL POSITIONS

The catalogue to a groundbreaking exhibition of Dubuffets seminal Art Brut and including historic essays by the artist published in English for the first time. Jean Dubuffet is a French painter and sculptor who painted in a deliberately crude manner, inspired b y art of the mentally ill or Art Brut. Dubuffet developed a technique of thick impasto and frequently incorporated unorthodox mate rials ranging from cement and gravel to leaves, dust, and even butterfly wings into his works. His controversial materials and mark- making solidif...[Read more]