PARALLEL VISIONS: MODERN ARTISTS AND OUTSIDER ART. (SIGNED)

TUCHMAN, Maurice, Carol S. Eliel.

ISBN 10: 0875871658 / ISBN 13: 9780875871653

Published by Los Angeles County Museum Of Art,, Los Angeles,, 1992

About this Item

First Edition. Hardback. 4to. pp 334. Original publisher's illustrated laminated boards. Issued without dust jacket. Copiously illustrated in colour and black and white throughout. The artwork reproduced in this volume, originally part of an exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, explores the 20th-century phenomenon of "outsider" art - works of art created by self-taught individuals, sometimes emotionally disturbed, who are isolated from mainstream culture. Signed presentation from the editor, Maurice Tuchman on the title page, " For lovely Carde and Dynamite Sam, with many thanks for an unforgettable evening, yours, Maurice - London 11 Feb. '93." ISBN: 0875871658 Slight rubbing, otherwise near fine.

Seller Inventory # C53827

Bibliographic Details

• Title: PARALLEL VISIONS: MODERN ARTISTS AND OUTSIDER ART. (SIGNED)
• Publisher: Los Angeles County Museum Of Art,, Los Angeles,
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0875871658
• ISBN 13: 9780875871653
• Binding: Hardback
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signedes

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Synopsis

In 1912 Paul Klee declared that the art of the mentally ill, as well as the art of children, "really should be taken far more seriously than are the collections of all our art museums if we truly intend to reform today's art". What Klee found most fascinating and instructive about the art of "outsiders" - those self-taught individuals, sometimes mentally disturbed, who create while isolated from mainstream culture - was the sincerity, depth and power of their unadulterated, unmediated expressions. "Parallel Visions", an exhibition and catalogue organized and produced by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, reveals the considerable influence that outsider art has had on the development of 21-century art. The work of such "marginalized" artists and compulsive visionaries as Antonin Artaud, Ferdinand Cheval, Henry Darger, Howard Finster, Madge Gill, Martin Ramirez, P.M. Wentworth, Adolf Wolfli, and Joseph Yoakum is juxtaposed with the work of devotees of outsider art among modern artists. Essays by the curators of the exhibition and other commentators offer a history of this phenomenon as well as an exploration of issues crucial to the formation of our aesthetic and critical judgements and our notions of creativity.