The Photograph Albums of Jean Dubuffet

The Photograph Albums of Jean Dubuffet / ISBN 9788874397969 / 800+ page hardback, 11.25 x 8.5 inches, text in English and French, published by 5Continents Gigantic and intense. Search 50 Watts Books for art brut. *** In the years 1945–1963, Jean Dubuffet set about documenting his collection of Art Brut. He had the pieces photographed by recognised photographers on the Paris art scene, including Henry Bonhotal and Emile Savitry. But he also had pieces photographed that were not in his own collection, including works that interested him because, like Art Brut, they were marginal to the official art world. These notably include works of popular and naïve art, children’s drawings, tattoos, graffiti photographed by Brassaï and graphic works from the Solomon Islands. Dubuffet arranged these photographs of artworks by over a hundred artists—including Gaston Chaissac, Aloïse Corbaz, Joseph Crépin, Auguste Forestier, Somuk and Adolf Wölfli as well as anonymous artists—in extraordinary sequences