“The philosophical basis of Jean Dubuffet’s art has always dealt with the resuscitation of discarded values.” So began an extensive March 1984 Architectural Digest feature on the renowned French ...

Jean Dubuffet: Anticultural Positions (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Mark Rosenthal, Jean Dubuffet, Kent Mitchell Minturn et al. New York: Acquavella Galleries. 2016 Jean Dubuffet: Metamorphoses of ...

LONDON — In 1971, Jean Dubuffet took over a disused factory in the suburbs of Paris and set his assistants to work on fabricating the hundreds of props that make up his colossal “living painting,” ...

Remarkably, Brutal Beauty is the first major survey of Jean Dubuffet’s work in the UK in more than 50 years. Yet, as the curator Eleanor Nairne points out, Dubuffet has remained a source of ...

Art exists everywhere, not just in museums. Grace Banks has delved into the best places in the world to experience art off the beaten track in the book Art Escapes (Gestalten), highlighting some of ...

Born in Le Havre, France in 1901 to a family of bourgeoisie wine merchants, Dubuffet’s early involvement with art was marked by periods of inactivity, during which time he preoccupied himself with the ...

Made with anything to hand – rubble, asphalt, butterfly wings – the postwar French artist’s freewheeling art is to be celebrated in a major UK show opening later this month A writer, visiting the ...

Earlier this week, the Department of Justice sent out a press release seeking the owner of a painting by Art Brut master Jean Dubuffet, Site avec 5 personnages (1981), which was seized as part of a ...

Art at Work: The JPMorgan Chase Art Collection. Third edition. New York: JP Morgan Chase & Co., 2016: 214–5, illustrated Dubuffet Drawings, 1935–1962 (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Cornelia H.

Drawings are always better than paintings, Jean Dubuffet once wrote, because in order to arrive at a good one, you make 50 that you discard. To do that with paintings would take weeks or months. It is ...