EAN: 9783791359793

JEAN DUBUFFET - ELEANOR NAIRNE GEBUNDEN

Featuring newly commissioned essays and photography of rarely exhibited works  this book
highlights the radicalism of Jean Dubuffet  who was one of the most provocative voices of the
postwar avant-garde. In 1940s occupied Paris  Jean Dubuffet began to champion a progressive
vision for art  one that rejected classical notions of beauty in favor of a more visceral
aesthetic. Taking a pioneering approach to materiality and technique  the artist variously
blended paint with sand  glass  tar  coal dust  and string. At the same time  he began to
assemble a collection of art brut-work that was made outside the academic tradition of fine
art-even visiting psychiatric wards from 1945 to collect work by patients. This book features
texts from leading scholars and is accompanied by images that illuminate Dubuffet's attempts to
move beyond the artistic expectations of his time. The works are grouped into six thematic
sections that focus on specific series  from his graffiti-inspired Walls and his notorious
portrait series  People are Much More Beautiful Than They Think to the Corps de dames  a
controversial series of female landscapes  and his anthropomorphic sculptures  Little Statues
of Precarious Life. Exquisitely produced  this celebration of Dubuffet's work embraces his
world view that art is for everyone  not just the elite. With contributions by Sophie Berrebi 
Charlotte Flint  Camille Houzé  Sarah Lombardi  Kent Minturn  Rachel Perry  and Sarah Wilson
Published in association with the Barbican Art Gallery  London

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