Research Catalog

Title

Outsider art from Japan.

Publication

Zwolle : WBooks ; Haarlem : Museum het Dolhuys, ©2012.

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Details

Additional Authors

Museum het Dolhuys (Haarlem, Netherlands)

Description

141 pages : color illustrations, portraits; 26 cm

Summary

"Outsider Art form Japan accompanies an exhibition at the Het Dolhuys Museum in Haarlem starting in Spring 2012. This carefully crafted publication is comprised of fifty biographies of Japanese artists. Collectively they have shown almost a thousand pieces of art in a Europe-wide touring exhibition. Outsider art is exceptionally expressive. The special artists communicate mainly via these pieces of art. They are not trained to be artists and have a mental illness or a mental handicap. Amongst others in this book is work by Marie Suzuki (1979); facinated by the human body, where breasts and genitalia dominate, she produces expressive paintings. Her work is mainly based on childhood memories; here, art is an unmissable form of expression. Outsider Art from Japan also includes very impressive works by Shinichi Sawada (1982). In a detailed manner he makes earthenware statues that appear to look like friendly monsters. Sawada has a form of autism and hardly speaks; his main form of communication is via his art. Sawada has already sold some of his works of art in the United States. The artists and their works of art are specially selected by Hans Looijen, manager of Het Dolhuys Museum in Haarlem, where the exhibition will start in the spring of 2012."--Publisher description.

Alternative Title

• ヘット・ドルハウス
• Hetto Doruhausu

Subjects

• Japan
• Artists with mental disabilities > Japan > Exhibitions
• Art brut > Japan > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

• Exhibition catalogs
• Exhibition catalogues.

Note

• Exhibition catalog.
• Includes index.

ISBN

• 9789040007415
• 9040007411

LCCN

2012466030

OCLC

• ocn794707707
• 794707707
• SCSB-1643893

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library