Shattered Forms: Art Brut, Phantasms, Modernism (SUNY Series in Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art) (Suny Series in Aesthetics & the Philosophy of Art)

Art Brut, also termed Outsider Art, has long been suppressed from most art historical writing. Why this rejection? The hyperbolic expressions of Romanticism and Symbolism nourished a desire for derangement and dissociation that inspired both Expressionism and Surrealism. Simulated delirium became the object of the new art -- experimental, avant-garde, modernist -- which arose from the fragmented codes, the shattered forms of everyday communication.