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LeR DLa CaNpaNe [L’air de la campagne] (Country Air)

Jean DubuffetWW-1948-M128006

1948·Book with seven woodcuts (printed from Camembert boxes, shoe-polish tins, and other scraps of wood) and four linoleum cuts, all printed on brayer-inked newsprint; mimeographed text reproducing the artist’s handwriting. Publisher’s original brayer-inked newsprint covers with mimeographed text reproducing the artist’s handwriting; side-stapled binding.·Book (closed): 7 1/2 × 5 3/8 × 1/16 in. (19 × 13.6 × 0.2 cm);

Catalogue

Year: 1948
Medium: Book with seven woodcuts (printed from Camembert boxes, shoe-polish tins, and other scraps of wood) and four linoleum cuts, all printed on brayer-inked newsprint; mimeographed text reproducing the artist’s handwriting. Publisher’s original brayer-inked newsprint covers with mimeographed text reproducing the artist’s handwriting; side-stapled binding.
Dimensions: Book (closed): 7 1/2 × 5 3/8 × 1/16 in. (19 × 13.6 × 0.2 cm);
Collection: Museum of Modern Art
Artist: Jean Dubuffet

Artist

Jean Dubuffet

Painting

Jean Dubuffet looked to the margins of the everyday—the art of prisoners, psychics, the uneducated, and the institutionalized—to liberate his own creativity, coining the term “Art Brut” as a reflection of the creative possibilities outside the conventions of the day.

Le Havre, France

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