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Raw Vision 92 will be out in the UK at the end of December and soon after in other countries! This packed issue features:
- Woolsey bottle cap classics
- Brent Brown's cardboard works
- Muscovite painter Alevtian Pyzhova
- Homeless artist William Hall
- Classic outsider artist Minnie Evans
- 19th century mediumistic painter Georgiana Houghton
- Louisiana's African American Heritage Museum
- Plus plenty of news and reviews!
New art brut film seeking funding
Eternity Has No Door of Escape is a film by Arthur Borgnis about the history of art brut, featuring interviews with key figures in the field and rare footage of Hans Prinzhorn, Jean Dubuffet, Aloïse Corbaz and Harald Szeemann. Borgnis is crowdfunding to raise funds to complete the
film. Click below to support him with his project. A clip of the film can be viewed at vimeo.com/188080628.
To find out more and to help bring this project to fruition please click here.
Image: Adolf Wölfli
Outsider Art Sourcebook Featured Artist:
Edmund Monsiel (1897–1962)
Edmund Monsiel, a Polish shopkeeper with untreated schizophrenia, started drawing during World War II. When German forces took over his shop, he feared arrest and fled to his brother’s house, where he passed the remainder of the war hiding in a dark attic. Under these conditions, by the light of a candle, Monsiel started to draw his highly detailed pencil works. After the end of the war, he continued to live in isolation, taking a job as a machine operator. He was a quiet and devout man who feared the forces of evil. Much of his work is dominated by religious imagery, with representations of priests, God, Christ or the Devil.
His intricate, highly detailed line drawings are frequently dominated by moustached faces, in full face and in profile, often reproduced in multiples within larger forms, the background of his pictures made up of hundreds of pairs of staring eyes. The overall effect is overwhelming, particularly given the scale of the drawings (average size just 6 x 4 ins. / 15 x 10 cm) such that the composition threatens to be lost in the elaborate chaos of detail. Monsiel produced hundreds of pieces of artwork in a 20-year period. Although many were lost, over 550 drawings and sketches remain intact.
Read more in the Outsider Art Sourcebook.
