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Shattered forms : art brut, phantasms, modernism /

By:

Weiss, Allen S, 1953-

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Publisher: Albany : State University of New York Press, c1992Description: xii, 158 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0791411176
0791411184

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

701/.05 20

LOC classification:

N7432.5.A78 W44 1992

Summary: Art Brut, also termed Outsider Art, has long been suppressed from most art historical writing. Why this rejection? The hyperbolic expression of Romanticism and Symbolism nourished desire for derangement and dissociation that inspires both Expressionism and Surrealism. Simulated delirium became the object of the new art - experimental, avant-garde, modernist - which arose from the fragmented codes, the shattered forms of every day communication. But what of those artists whose works, and often whose deliria are the manifestation of sheer eccentricity, of social isolation and marginalization, or of madness ? (cont....)

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Carleton University, AVRC	Open-stacks	N7432.5.A78 W44 1992 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		16055000708

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