Volume 40, Number 7 · April 8, 1993
The Scream Behind the Pattern
By Rosemary Dinnage
Parallel Visions: Modern Artists and Outsider Art
by Maurice Tuchman, by Carol S. Eliel
Los Angeles County Museum of Art/Princeton University Press, 334 pp., $24.95 (paper)
Madness and Art: The Life and Works of Adolf Wölfli
by Walter Morgenthaler, translated by Aaron H. Esman
University of Nebraska Press, 131 pp., $35.00
Some twenty years after the ending of World War II, a gathering of drawings and paintings was found stacked in the damp storeroom of a psychiatric clinic in Heidelberg. The Prinzhorn Collection of the art of psychiatric patients, like many other collections, had been hidden away for the duration of hostilities but, unlike most, had been forgotten. It was rescued, recatalogued, and has since been on exhibition on the Continent and in the United States. Its existence, like that of the Wölfli Foundation in Berne and the Collection de l'Art Brut in Lausanne, is an expression of a change in artistic direction that has its roots in the nineteenth century.
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