Research Catalog

Title

Jean Dubuffet : brutal beauty / edited by Eleanor Nairne.

Publication

• Munich : Prestel, 2021.
• Calbe, Germany : Grafisches Centrum Cuno

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Details

Additional Authors

• Dubuffet, Jean, 1901-1985.
• Nairne, Eleanor
• Barbican Art Gallery

Description

287 pages : color illustrations; 29 cm

Summary

"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." --

Subject

• Dubuffet, Jean, 1901-1985 > Exhibitions
• Dubuffet, Jean, 1901-1985 > Criticism and interpretation
• Dubuffet, Jean, 1901-1985
• Art brut > France > Exhibitions
• ART / General
• Art brut
• France

Genre/Form

• Exhibition catalogs.
• Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Note

• With contributions by Sophie Berrebi, Charlotte Flint, Camille Houzé, Sarah Lombardi, Kent Minturn, Rachel Perry, and Sarah Wilson.

Bibliography (note)

• Contains bibliographical references (pages 273-282) and index.

Exhibitions (note)

• "First published in 2021 by Prestel Verlag in association with Barbican Art Gallery on the occasion of the exhibition "Jean Dubuffet : Brutal Beauty" 11 February - May 23 2021"--Colophon.

Contents

Matter and memory -- True face -- Beauty and the brut / Eleanor Nairne -- Ladies' bodies -- Mental landscapes -- Beauty degree zero / Kent Mitchell Minturn -- The garden -- Precarious life -- Statues also live: Jean Dubuffet's precarious, creaturely life / Rachel E. Perry -- Texturology -- Paris circus -- Scintillating matter, seething life: from the 'texturologies' to 'Paris circus' / Sarah Wilson -- Art brut, 1945 -- The collection returns -- Jean Dubuffet: the artist and art brut--deep-rooted relationships / Sarah Lombardi -- L'hourloupe -- Coucou bazar -- The high seas of L'hourloupe / Sophie Berrebi -- Theatres of memory -- Non-place -- The swallow and the dagger / Camille Houzé.

Call Number

JQF 22-166

ISBN

• 9783791359793
• 3791359797

OCLC

1233322579

Title

Jean Dubuffet : brutal beauty / edited by Eleanor Nairne.

Publisher

Munich : Prestel, 2021.

Manufacturer

Calbe, Germany : Grafisches Centrum Cuno

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Contains bibliographical references (pages 273-282) and index.

Exhibitions

"First published in 2021 by Prestel Verlag in association with Barbican Art Gallery on the occasion of the exhibition "Jean Dubuffet : Brutal Beauty" 11 February - May 23 2021"--Colophon.

Added Author

Container of (work): Dubuffet, Jean, 1901-1985. Works. Selections.

Nairne, Eleanor, editor.

Barbican Art Gallery.

Research Call Number

JQF 22-166