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Description of Art Brut |
Art Brut
[Fr.:
‘raw
art’].
Term
used
from
the
mid-1940s
to
designate
a
type
of
art
outside
the
fine
art
tradition.
The
commonest
English-language
equivalent
for
art
brut
is
‘Outsider
art’.
In
North
America,
the
same
phenomenon
tends
to
attract
the
label
‘Grass-roots
art’.
The
French
term
was
coined
by
Jean
Dubuffet,
who
posited
an
inventive,
non-conformist
art
that
should
be
perfectly
brut,
unprocessed
and
spontaneous,
and
emphatically
distinct
from
what
he
saw
as
the
derivative
stereotypes
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