Episode 28: Jean Dubuffet’s Band of Outsiders

A little over 20 years after a psychiatrist completed a thesis on the artistic talents of the inmates of various German mental asylums, Jean Dubuffet coined the expression “Art Brut”. Thus creating a movement that totally democratized the artistic process, and distanced itself from the de rigueur modes of the art scene. This was raw art — and anyone could make their mark.

Notes:

Jean Dubuffet’s MoMa profile

Sotheby’s: The Founding Father of Art Brut

Apollo: Art Brut in Museums

Phaidon: A Movement in a moment

Public Domain Review: Hans Prinzhorn’s Artistry of the Mentally Ill

Homer The Artist

Art Brut — Modern Art

Raw Vision back issues

Jean Dubuffet, L’Hourloupe, 1962–1974

Adolf Wölfi, Saint Adolf portant des lunettes entre les deux villes géantes Niess et Mia, 1924

Les données de I’instant — Jean Dubuffet, 1977

Morton Bartlett, Untitled (Girl Wagging Finger at Dog), c. 1955