Honneur aux Valeurs Sauvages
Dubuffet, Jean
(Lille). 1951
A very fine copy of the printed version of Dubuffet's speech - a powerful articulation of Art Brut - written for the exhibition 'Cinq Petits Inventeurs de la Peinture' in 1951.
The exhibition 'Cinq Petits Inventeurs de la Peinture' opened in Lille, at the Librairie Marcel Evrard, on January 10th, 1951 and ran until January 25th. Organised by Dubuffet and Dr. Paul Bernard, the exhibition consisted of the work of five patients in the Saint-Jean-de-Dieu Hospital (also the Hôpital Lommelet) at Saint-André-lez-Lille (now the Établissement Public de Santé Mentale for Lille). The five patients were chosen for their painted work as untaught outsider artists. At the time of the exhibition, Dubuffet gave a talk at Lille University's Faculty of Letters, the content of which is reproduced in the present opuscule.
The exhibitors were all listed in the catalogue (also with a text by Dubuffet) under pseudonyms - as patients under treatment this was done to protect their identities - as follows: 'Paul End' (Eugène Engrand), 'Gasduf' (Gaston Dufour), 'Sylvcoq' (Sylvain Lecocq), 'Liber' (Stanislas Lib) and 'Alcide' (Alcide Verret).
'Il [Dubuffet] y explique et précise la place particulière qu’il accorde à la folie dans les mécanismes de création de l’art brut. Ni art des fous, ni art psychopathologique, l’art brut relève pour lui d’un art à l’état sauvage. Il prend notamment appui sur la place centrale qu’occupe la folie dans l’art des Indiens d’Amérique ou dans des productions de Nouvelle Irlande.' ('Dossier Pédagogique' of the catalogue 'Chercher l'Or du Temps')
Dubuffet's text as presented here is fragile and scarce and we locate the following examples: at the Bibliothèque Nationale and LaM (Lille Métropole Musée d'Art Moderne, d'Art Contemporain et d'Art Brut) in France, at the Kunstbibliothek Staatliche Museen zu Berlin in Germany and at Princeton, Harvard, Yale and the National Gallery of Art Library in the US. Dubuffet's original manuscript - it forms part of the archive of Alfonso Ossorio - is held by the Smithsonian.
[see the 'Dossier Pédagogique' for the exhibition 'Chercher l'Or du Temps: Surréalisme, Art Naturel, Art Brut, Art Magique', LAM, October 14th 2022 - January 29th, 2023].
The exhibition 'Cinq Petits Inventeurs de la Peinture' opened in Lille, at the Librairie Marcel Evrard, on January 10th, 1951 and ran until January 25th. Organised by Dubuffet and Dr. Paul Bernard, the exhibition consisted of the work of five patients in the Saint-Jean-de-Dieu Hospital (also the Hôpital Lommelet) at Saint-André-lez-Lille (now the Établissement Public de Santé Mentale for Lille). The five patients were chosen for their painted work as untaught outsider artists. At the time of the exhibition, Dubuffet gave a talk at Lille University's Faculty of Letters, the content of which is reproduced in the present opuscule.
The exhibitors were all listed in the catalogue (also with a text by Dubuffet) under pseudonyms - as patients under treatment this was done to protect their identities - as follows: 'Paul End' (Eugène Engrand), 'Gasduf' (Gaston Dufour), 'Sylvcoq' (Sylvain Lecocq), 'Liber' (Stanislas Lib) and 'Alcide' (Alcide Verret).
'Il [Dubuffet] y explique et précise la place particulière qu’il accorde à la folie dans les mécanismes de création de l’art brut. Ni art des fous, ni art psychopathologique, l’art brut relève pour lui d’un art à l’état sauvage. Il prend notamment appui sur la place centrale qu’occupe la folie dans l’art des Indiens d’Amérique ou dans des productions de Nouvelle Irlande.' ('Dossier Pédagogique' of the catalogue 'Chercher l'Or du Temps')
Dubuffet's text as presented here is fragile and scarce and we locate the following examples: at the Bibliothèque Nationale and LaM (Lille Métropole Musée d'Art Moderne, d'Art Contemporain et d'Art Brut) in France, at the Kunstbibliothek Staatliche Museen zu Berlin in Germany and at Princeton, Harvard, Yale and the National Gallery of Art Library in the US. Dubuffet's original manuscript - it forms part of the archive of Alfonso Ossorio - is held by the Smithsonian.
[see the 'Dossier Pédagogique' for the exhibition 'Chercher l'Or du Temps: Surréalisme, Art Naturel, Art Brut, Art Magique', LAM, October 14th 2022 - January 29th, 2023].
[13 leaves; pp. (i), 23]. 4to. (278 x 219 mm). Leaf with title and 12 leaves with typescript text by Jean Dubuffet concluding on final recto, final verso blank; sheet size: 270 x 210 mm. Original publisher's thin tan card wrappers, stapled as issued, printed title to front cover in black, crushed morocco-backed patterned paper-covered board chemise with title argent to spine, matching slipcase.
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