The catalogue to a groundbreaking exhibition of Dubuffet's seminal "Art Brut" and including historic essays by the artist published for the first time. This is the first book to be published on Dubuffet's early work in painting and sculpture in more than two decades. Organized by Mark Rosenthal, the exhibition focuses on Dubuffet's work from 1943 to 1959, and emphasizes the artist's "anti-cultural" approach in his depiction of subjects and his use of unorthodox materials. Several works by the French painter are on loan from private collections and museums.
Mark Rosenthal is a curator, author, and art historian currently based in Detroit where he serves as the adjunct curator for contemporary art for the Detroit Institute of the Arts. He has previously held curatorial positions at Berkeley, Philadelphia Museum, National Gallery of Art, as well as adjunct positions at the Guggenheim Museum and the Menil Collection. Kent Minturn has written extensively on Jean Dubuffet. Kent is a Visiting Assistant Professor at New York University's Institute of Fine Arts, and before this was the Director of Columbia's MA Program in Modern Art, Critical and Curatorial Studies (MODA). Since 1972 Anny Aviram has worked as a conservator at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, where she specializes in the treatment of modern and contemporary paintings.
