JEAN DUBUFFET MUSIQUE BRUT LP ASGER JORN-ADOLF WOLFLI-NWW-EXPERIMENTAL-AVANT

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JEAN DUBUFFET

 MUSIQUE BRUT LP

Time Series 2000 

Must have art record from the great french sculptor and painter Jean Dubuffet. This is his famous Art Brut, one of the most important sound documents of the 20th century.

Some info on the release:  Rare original issue, released in Usa most propably sometime in the late 80's / early 90's supposedly on the Time Series 2000 label (which is not true, as that label had stopped activity during that time). Unbelievable obscure record from visual artist / painter Jean Dubuffet recorded from January to April 1961. This is his famous "musique brut", which is the musical transposition of his art brut aesthetics for arts, as he visioned it and realised in his paintings. Art brut opposes to the selective and repressive character of art in its' conventional forms and refuses every aspect of harmony or beauty absorbing itself into anything spontaneous. And actually the music on this record can be considered as the one most groundbreaking recordings of all times considering the fact that it was recorded back in 1961!! Noisy, weird, strange or whatever you might call it, this record was years ahead of its' time. I'm not sure, but this might be a re-issue, but can't find any info on this, no info whatsover about this album on the internet, not re-released on compact disc, a real rarity!! On the Nurse with wound list of influences!! Very rare, last copy of this one on ebay some years ago went to 240$.

Jean Dubuffet (31 July 1901 – 12 May 1985) was a French painter and sculptor. His idealistic approach to aesthetics embraced so called "low art" and eschewed traditional standards of beauty in favor of what he believed to be a more authentic and humanistic approach to image-making. In 1945 he was strongly impressed by a show in Paris of Jean Fautrier's paintings in which he recognized meaningful art which expressed directly and purely the depth of a person. As did Fautrier he started to use thick oil paint, but mixed with sand and gravel, by which he could model the paint as a skin of the painting. This resulted in the series 'Hautes Pâtes', which he exhibited in 1946 at the Galérie René Drouin. After 1946 he started a series of portraits, with as 'model' partly his own friends Henri Michaux, Francis Ponge, Jean Paulhan and Pierre Matisse. He painted these portraits in the same thick materials, and in a manner deliberately anti-psychological and anti-personal, as Dubuffet expressed himself. A few years later he approached the surrealist group in 1948, then the College of Pataphysique in 1954. He was friendly with the French playwright, actor and theater director Antonin Artaud, he admired and supported the writer Louis-Ferdinand Céline and was strongly connected with the artistic circle around the surrealist André Masson. In 1944 started an important relation with the resistance-fighter and French writer, publisher, Jean Paulhan who was also strongly fighting against 'intellectual terrorism', as he called it.

Influenced by Hans Prinzhorn's book Artistry of the Mentally Ill, Dubuffet coined the term art brut (meaning "raw art," often referred to as ‘outsider art’) for art produced by non-professionals working outside aesthetic norms, such as art by psychiatric patients, prisoners, and children. He amassed his own collection of such art, including artists such as Aloïse Corbaz and Adolf Wölfli. The collection is now housed at the Collection de l'art brut in Lausanne, Switzerland. In late 1960–1961, Dubuffet began experimenting with music and sound and made several recordings with the Danish painter Asger Jorn, a founding member of the avant-garde movement COBRA. The same period he started making sculpture, but in a very not-sculptural way. As his medium he preferred to use the ordinary materials as papier mâchier and for all the light medium polystyrene, in which he could model very fast and switch easily from one work to another, as sketches on paper. At the end of the 1960s he started to create his large sculpture-habitations, such as 'Tour aux figures', 'Jardin d'Hiver' and 'Villa Falbala' in which people can wander, stay, and contemplate. In 1969 ensued an acquaintance between him and the French Outsider Art artist Jacques Soisson.

Condition: Vinyl lies in excellent- condition, looks clean and plays nicely, while cover lies in mint shape, in shrink like new (see picture).

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