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Valérie Rousseau

PHD, is a Curator of Self-Taught Art & Art Brut, American Folk Art Museum, New York.

Guest Critic

At the Beginning, A Monologue: The Fate of Self-Taught Art

By conceiving the notion of art brut in a Europe devastated by the Second World War, French artist Jean Dubuffet questioned the underlying pretense behind the processes of artistic legitimization, dispossessing those authorities empowered to legislate in the art world.

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The Brooklyn Rail

SEPT 2023

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