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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Book in excellent unread/unused condition. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> The art of visionaries folk creators spiritualists recluses the ‘mad’ and the socially marginalized is no longer scorned and cannot be ignored. Direct and unconstrained it is imbued with a rare freshness of invention. Among the first to value and collect such work was the French artist Jean Dubuffet (1901-85). For those he judged to represent the ‘purest form of creation’ he coined the term Art Brut literally ‘raw art’- raw because it was ‘uncooked’ by culture raw because it came directly from the psyche art touched by a raw nerve. Some fifty years later a bewildering range of terminology has emerged along with growing enthusiasm for strains of creative expression outside the conventional art world. In RAW CREATION John Maizels traces the history of the 5 recognition and study of this art and examines the different theories and definitions that have grown up around it. He provides detailed expositions of the work of individual artists ranging from such Art Brut masters as Adolf W?lfi and Alo?se Corbaz to such gifted American folk artists as Bill Traylor and Mose Tolliver. Devoting several chapters to large-scale visionary environments he takes a broad international view embracing Rodia’s towers in Watts Los Angeles the Palais Id?al in the south of France and Nek Chand’s sculpture garden in north India. Unprecedented in its breadth of coverage Raw Creation provides an indispensable guide to self-taught art and a fascinating account of human creativity. (MP)