Parallel Visions: Modern Artists and Outsider Art

by Carol S Eliel, Maurice Tuchman, Carol S. Eliel

Book Overview

In 1912 Paul Klee declared that the art of the mentally ill, as well as the art of children, "really should be taken far more seriously than are the collections of all our art museums if we truly intend to reform today's art." What Klee found most fascinating and instructive about the art of "outsiders"--those self-taught individuals, sometimes mentally disturbed, who create while isolated from mainstream culture--was the sincerity, depth, and power...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691000395
• ISBN13: 9780691000398
• Release Date: October 1992
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 334 Pages
• Weight: 3.30 lbs.