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Artistry of the Mentally Ill

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In outsider art: History and characteristics
…and art historian Hans Prinzhorn’s Artistry of the Mentally Ill (1922), which became something of a touchstone for the Surrealists, especially Max Ernst, as well as for Dubuffet and subsequently many others.
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