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In the late 1940s the French artist Jean Dubuffet identified a historically overlooked category of art—visual works created by nonprofessional, untrained artists who live outside the realm of normative culture—and termed it “art brut,” or “raw” art. Consisting of work made by the clinically insane, children, and others on society’s fringes, the work was considered to be “created from solitude and from pure and authentic creative impulses,” according to Dubuffet, who believed it to be art in its most uncompromised state. In later years art brut was embraced in the United States as “outsider art,” but it has proven a controversial umbrella for artists and their work due to the slippery questions about who qualifies as an “outsider,” and who is responsible for labeling them as such. READ MORE
