Art Brut. Outsider art, outsider artists
Description
In its strictest sense, the term art brut refers to art created outside the boundaries of official culture and often focuses on the work of people who live in mental institutions. This program focuses on the art of Josef "Pepi" Hofer and several other artists with mental retardation and similar disabilities as it captures them in workshops and at a showing and award ceremony at The House of Art, Munich. Although not designated as art therapy, the effects of creating art are visibly therapeutic as these individuals explore issues of sexuality and other areas of human experience and imagination through depictions both complex and deceptively simple.
Runtime
37 min
Subjects
- Mental illness (325)
- Art appreciation (292)
- Visual literacy (198)
- Developmental disorders (30)
- Aging (259)
- Adolescent psychopathology (32)
- Visual perception (59)
- Psychology, Pathological (155)
- Child psychopathology (37)
Genre
Date of Publication
[2007], c2006
Database
Films on Demand
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