LACMA’S outlier art exhibit tries to overlay an identity-politics reading on art whose very status as “outlying” should exempt it from such nonsense.
OUTSIDER ART
CRAZY LOVE
“One artist in the Collection whom [Jean] Dubuffet [founder of the term “art brut,” and champion of art by “outsiders” such as psychiatric patients, convicts, and children] came to know well was Aloïse Corbaz (1886-1964), an inmate of a mental hospital near Lausanne, whom he first met during his initial visit to Switzerland in 1945. […]