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RR 2004/104 Raw Vision Outsider Art Sourcebook Edited by John Maizels Raw Vision Radlett, UK 2003 228 pp. ISBN 0 9543393 0 4 £17.95
Keywords Arts, Graphic arts
Review DOI 10.1108/09504120410521231
Raw Vision Outsider Art Sourcebook is the first publication to provide a comprehensive guide to outsider art, art brut, contemporary folk art and visionary art from around the world. Over the past two decades, outsider art has drawn increasing attention from an international audience and the publication of this sourcebook will provide timely guidance for students and scholars researching this fascinating subject. Art Brut, meaning raw art, is a term originally coined by Jean Dubuffet to describe works of art executed by people free of artistic culture. Dubuffet collected such works from 1945 on and formed a "Compagnie del'Art Brut" with...