Contemporary Art Criticism, Interviews, Essays and Visual Politics
Jean Dubuffet (1901–1985) was a French artist, writer and collector who challenged the cultural authority of academic art. In the 1940s, he introduced the concept of Art Brut to describe creative practices developed outside official artistic institutions and conventional aesthetic rules.
This section explores Dubuffet’s paintings, sculptures, writings and radical theories, as well as his interest in self-taught creators, psychiatric patients and other figures excluded from the traditional art system. It also examines the contradictions created when Art Brut entered museums, collections and the international art market.
Installation view, L’Art Brut de Jean Dubuffet, aux origines de la collection, Collection de l’Art Brut, Lausanne. Courtesy of Collection de l’Art Brut. Modern art searched hospitals, streets and social margins for images the academy could no longer create. Art Brut reveals who still has the power to name the outsider.
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DUBUFFET MUDEC An Intimate Journey Through the Raw and Captivating World of Art Brut in Milan’s MUDEC Few experiences capture the raw
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Jean Dubuffet — Skedaddle (L’Escampette). Jean Dubuffet and Art Brut: The Artist Who Made Raw Art Attack Good Taste Jean Dubuffet did not simply invent
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Hans Hartung - Untitle Tachism: Postwar Paris and the Lyrical Politics of the Brushstroke In the wake of World War II, the art world
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