Line Let Loose is a sustained investigation of the evolution of scribbling, doodling and automatic drawing. Of these three forms of 'drawing', scribbling is the most basic: it is seen as playing a formative role in the drawings of both children and primates. Doodling, whilst still being a widespread[...]
This text analyses the questions which are at the core of the nature of artistic appreciation and the creative process. It re-evaluates traditional philosophical and psychoanalytic approaches to aesthetics, arguing that they fail to take into account the relationship of artist, art work and audience[...]
Outsider art is work produced outside the mainstream of modern art by self-taught visionaries, spiritualists, eccentrics, recluses, psychiatric patients, criminals and others beyond the perceived margins of society. Coined in 1972 the term is derived from art brut', which the artist Jean Dubuffet be[...]