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 Valérie RousseauBy 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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