Parallel Visions: Modern Artists and Outsider Art. LACMA 1992
Catalogue of an exhibition organised by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 18 October 1992 – 3 January 1993, and other locations throughout 1993.
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 un-adulterated, unmediated expressions. Parallel Visions, an exhibition and catalog organised and produced by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, reveals the considerable influence that outsider art has had on the development of twentieth-century art. The work of such "marginalised" artists and compulsive visionaries as Antonin Artaud, Ferdinand Cheval, Henry Darger, Howard Finster, Madge Gill, Martin Ram!rez, P.M. Wentworth, Adolf Wölfli, and Joseph Yoakum is juxtaposed with the work of devotees of outsiders art among modern artists. Essays by the curators of the exhibition, Maurice Tuchman and Carol S. Eliel, and by other commentators offer a history of this phenomenon as well as an exploration of issues crucial to the formation of our aesthetic and critical judgments and our notions of creativity. In addition to the curators, the contributors include Russell Bowman, Roger Cardinal, Barbara Freeman, Sander L. Gilman, Mark Gisbourne, Reinhold Heller, John M. MacGregor, Donald Preziosi, Allen Weiss, Jonathan Williams, and Sarah Wilson.
Price: £65
Title: Parallel Visions: Modern Artists and Outsider Art
Authors: Maurice Tuchman, Carol S. Eliel
Publisher: Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Princeton University Press
Publication date: 1992
Format: Hardcover
Total Pages: 334
Images: Profusely illustrated throughout
Condition: Very good
Provenance: The Library of Dr Alastair Grieve
Stock Number: RB02670
Catalogue of an exhibition organised by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 18 October 1992 – 3 January 1993, and other locations throughout 1993.
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 un-adulterated, unmediated expressions. Parallel Visions, an exhibition and catalog organised and produced by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, reveals the considerable influence that outsider art has had on the development of twentieth-century art. The work of such "marginalised" artists and compulsive visionaries as Antonin Artaud, Ferdinand Cheval, Henry Darger, Howard Finster, Madge Gill, Martin Ram!rez, P.M. Wentworth, Adolf Wölfli, and Joseph Yoakum is juxtaposed with the work of devotees of outsiders art among modern artists. Essays by the curators of the exhibition, Maurice Tuchman and Carol S. Eliel, and by other commentators offer a history of this phenomenon as well as an exploration of issues crucial to the formation of our aesthetic and critical judgments and our notions of creativity. In addition to the curators, the contributors include Russell Bowman, Roger Cardinal, Barbara Freeman, Sander L. Gilman, Mark Gisbourne, Reinhold Heller, John M. MacGregor, Donald Preziosi, Allen Weiss, Jonathan Williams, and Sarah Wilson.
Price: £65
Title: Parallel Visions: Modern Artists and Outsider Art
Authors: Maurice Tuchman, Carol S. Eliel
Publisher: Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Princeton University Press
Publication date: 1992
Format: Hardcover
Total Pages: 334
Images: Profusely illustrated throughout
Condition: Very good
Provenance: The Library of Dr Alastair Grieve
Stock Number: RB02670
Catalogue of an exhibition organised by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 18 October 1992 – 3 January 1993, and other locations throughout 1993.
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 un-adulterated, unmediated expressions. Parallel Visions, an exhibition and catalog organised and produced by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, reveals the considerable influence that outsider art has had on the development of twentieth-century art. The work of such "marginalised" artists and compulsive visionaries as Antonin Artaud, Ferdinand Cheval, Henry Darger, Howard Finster, Madge Gill, Martin Ram!rez, P.M. Wentworth, Adolf Wölfli, and Joseph Yoakum is juxtaposed with the work of devotees of outsiders art among modern artists. Essays by the curators of the exhibition, Maurice Tuchman and Carol S. Eliel, and by other commentators offer a history of this phenomenon as well as an exploration of issues crucial to the formation of our aesthetic and critical judgments and our notions of creativity. In addition to the curators, the contributors include Russell Bowman, Roger Cardinal, Barbara Freeman, Sander L. Gilman, Mark Gisbourne, Reinhold Heller, John M. MacGregor, Donald Preziosi, Allen Weiss, Jonathan Williams, and Sarah Wilson.
Price: £65
Title: Parallel Visions: Modern Artists and Outsider Art
Authors: Maurice Tuchman, Carol S. Eliel
Publisher: Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Princeton University Press
Publication date: 1992
Format: Hardcover
Total Pages: 334
Images: Profusely illustrated throughout
Condition: Very good
Provenance: The Library of Dr Alastair Grieve
Stock Number: RB02670