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Madness and Art: The Life and Works of Adolf Weolfli

Categorie	Schilderkunst
Boeknummer	#296959
Titel	Madness and Art: The Life and Works of Adolf Weolfli
Auteur	Morgenthaler, Walter
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	Lincoln/London : University of Nebraska Press
Jaar van uitgave	1992
ISBN10	0803231563
ISBN13	9780803231566
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original gilt lettered black cloth, dust jacket, illustrations in colour and some in b/w, small 4to.
Samenvatting	Recently interest has surged in what Jean Dubuffet called Art Brut, ? raw art? produced by persons operating outside cultural norms, reflecting inner need rather than any ? official? artistic attitude. Of the known practitioners of Art Brut, one of the most gifted was the Swiss peasant Adolf Wölfli. From 1895, when he was thirty-one, until his death in 1930, Wölfli was incarcerated in Waldau hospital, severely afflicted with rage and depression. Supplied with colored pencils and paper by his primary physician, Walter Morgenthaler, he began to draw. Morgenthaler? s pathbreaking study of Wölfli and his art, published in 1921, aimed at the center of contemporary debates about the relationships between creativity, madness, and art. This first English-language edition includes tw... (Lees verder)enty-four color reproductions of Wölfli? s art and Wölfli? s brief account of his own life.
Pagina's	131
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 45,00

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