L'art Brut

Unrecognized in the past by the general audience, outsider art is nowadays institutionalized and publicised. Far from "the art of the mentally ill", it covers an infinite variety of creations. Beyond the works associated to psychiatric hospitals, this book highlights the multifaceted realizations of "the common man" (Jean Dubuffet) - the ones out of artistic circles.
This original synthesis led by an international multidisciplinary team (art historians, critics, psychologist, psychiatrist, artist) gathers a corpus of 550 works.