Art Brut From Japan, Another Look

Following the publication of Art Brut du Japon,co-published in 2008 by the Collection de l'Art Brut and editionsInfolio, this catalogue presents pieces by twenty-five new Japaneseartists from different regions of Japan, whose works drawings,paintings, photographs, sculptures, and textiles - are largelyunpublished. The authors explore the assimilation of Japanese Art Brutinto the larger culture from 2008 to the present. As they point out,whereas the notion of mental handicap resides in aesthetic andsociological criteria (these artists are self-taught, and often sociallymarginalized misfits, draft dodgers, prisoners, psychiatric patients,the elderly, etc. who create outside of the official art system), thecondition whether mental or physical is not a criterion in itself.Accompanying an exhibition at Collection de l'Art Brut, Lausanne fromNovember 30, 2018 to April 28, 2019, this catalogue of new Japaneseworks expands our understanding of Art Brut in a contemporary albeitdifferent cultural setting.

Text in English and French.