Inner Worlds Outside art book outsider naive brut folk raw

A 240-page fully illustrated colour catalogue, with texts in both English and Spanish which accompanied the 2006 exhibition includes a joint introduction by Enrique Juncosa, José Conrado de Villalonga and Iwona Blazwick, directors of the organising institutions, as well as essays by Professor Roger Cardinal, rt artistorians James Elkins


From the contemporraneous description:

Pablo Picasso frequently turned to Outsiders in search of a more spontaneous form of artistic expression, unadulterated by art historical knowledge, in contrast to what they considered an over-sophisticated and self-conscious mainstream. The French artist Jean Dubuffet was, perhaps, the most active proponent of Art Brut, building up a significant collection of Outsider Art. However, many leading authorities today question the extent to which he sought to set their work apart from the wider art world.


Writer, filmmaker and gallerist Victor Musgrave, founder of the Musgrave Kinley Outsider Art Collection, was a member of Dubuffet’s compagnie de l’Art Brut and in 1979 organised the legendary Outsiders exhibition at the Hayward Gallery in London. The success of the exhibition encouraged him to establish the Outsiders Archive and to build a collection that would be accessible to the public. Since his death in 1984, his companion, Monika Kinley, has continued to add to the collection, which in 1998 was given on loan to the Irish Museum of Modern Art. Since that date IMMA has staged four exhibitions based on the collection and has also shown Outsider works in many general exhibitions from the IMMA Collection, at the Museum itself and throughout Ireland as part of the IMMA’s National Programme. In 2005 a small exhibition was held at Tate Britain to mark the publication of Monika’s Story – A Personal History of the Musgrave Kinley Outsider Collection and the donation of the Musgrave Kinley Outsider Collection Archive to the Tate Archive.


Inner Worlds Outside is co-curated by the distinguished academic and critic Jon Thompson and Monika Kinley and was originated by them and IMMA


This copy still in original shrikwrap, though that shrinkwrap is worn in spots. Now scarce


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