The artist outsider : creativity and the boundaries of culture / edited by Michael D. Hall and Eugene W. Metcalf, Jr. ; with Roger Cardinal.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hall, Michael D., 1941-

Metcalf, E. W.

Cardinal, Roger.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Folk art--United States.

Folk art.

Outsider art.

Primitivism in art.

United States.

Folk art--Europe.

Europe.

Primitivism in art--United States.

Primitivism in art--Europe.

Outsider art--United States.

Outsider art--Europe.

Art, American--20th century.

Art, American.

Art, European--20th century.

Art, European.

Physical Description:

xvii, 350 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, [1994]

Summary:

Exploding accepted definitions or the "outsider" within modern Western art, The Artist Outsider presents both American and European views on outsider art, Art Brut, folk art, primitive art, women's art, ethnic art, avant-garde art, and other ardently debated art forms. Essays by nineteen art historians, critics, folklorists, psychiatrists, cultural historians, artists, feminist scholars, anthropologists, and museum curators address the significance of ideas about the art of the "other" and the relation of these ideas to modern understandings of culture, artistic personality, and the ways that creativity helps to map our world. More than seventy illustrations, twelve in full color, illuminate these discussions. The contributors discuss variously the work of artist outsiders as fundamental human expression, political turf, clinical data, a marker of community, a functional artifact, and a sign of personal identity. The more theoretical essays consider the problem of artistic classification; political and philosophical issues involved in the idea of the artist outsider; and critical responses to new forms of art. Other essays examine the works of French environmental artist Pierre Avezard, Mexican American schizophrenic artist Martin Ramirez, Lithuanian Canadian painter Jahan Maka, Swiss German Surrealist sculptor Meret Oppenheim, and African American woodcarver Elijah Pierce. With its interdisciplinary vision, The Artist Outsider offers new ideas about how studies of art resonate with the examination of culture. Often in stark disagreement with one another, these essays provoke a reassessment of widely accepted ideas about the relationships among art, artistry, marginality, and culture.

Contents:

Crossing into uncommon grounds / Lucy R. Lippard

Toward an outsider aesthetic / Roger Cardinal

Folk sculpture without folk / Daniel Robbins

An anti-museum : the collection de l'Art Brut in Lausanne / Michel Thévoz

Rebels, mystics, and outcasts : the romantic artist outsider / Joanne Cubbs

The merry-go-round of Pierre Avezard : a masterpiece of French outsider art / Laurent Danchin

Bounded in a nutshell : reflections on the work of Martin Ramírez / David Maclagan

Jahan Maka : symbolist on the Precambrian shield / Michael D. Hall

Folk art and outsider art : a folklorist's perspective / Charles G. Zug III

The snake in the garden / Richard Nonas

The reception of new, unusual, and difficult art / Constance Perin

The history and prehistory of the artists' house in Gugging / Leo Navratil.

(cont) From domination to desire : insiders and outsider art / Eugene W. Metcalf, Jr.

French clinical psychiatry and the art of the untrained mentally ill / Mark Gisbourne

Outside outsider art / Kenneth L. Ames

Mistaken identities : Meret Oppenheim / Maureen P. Sherlock

Elijah Pierce, woodcarver : doves and pain in life fulfilled / Gerald L. Davis

How do you get inside the art of outsiders? / Michael Owen Jones

Outside in the city : street performers in New York's Washington Square Park / Sally Harrison-Pepper.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1560983345

1560983353

OCLC:

30000881