MAIZELS (John). Raw Creation: Outsider Art and Beyond - Lot 173

MAIZELS (John). Raw Creation: Outsider Art and Beyond London - New York, Phaidon Press, 1996. A reference work devoted to Art Brut, Outsider Art, and self-taught forms of artistic expression developed outside traditional art circles. Edited by British specialist John Maizels, founder of Outsider Art Magazine, this volume presents an international overview of the great visionary artists of the 20th century. With an introduction by Roger Cardinal, the theorist who popularized the term “Outsider Art,” the book brings together several hundred reproductions and entries devoted to self-taught, mystical, marginalized, or institutionalized artists whose work has profoundly transformed the history of contemporary art. Description: A substantial in-4 volume bound in a hardcover with an illustrated dust jacket. Extensive color illustrations. A beautiful copy.