1. Contra a Arte Bruta: sofrimento mental, segregação e arte contemporânea.
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Rivera, Tania
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OUTSIDER art , *PEOPLE with mental illness , *CRITICAL analysis , *MENTAL health , *ARTISTS - Abstract
This paper presents the concept of "Raw Art," following its main articulations in the field of art and mental health until the 1960s. Through a critical analysis, the text shows how this concept, despite encouraging the appreciation of artistic materials produced by psychiatric patients and other naïve artists, contributes to a segregationist categorization of the so-called "mad" artists, by adopting a reductionist and idealized understanding of creation as a spontaneous expression, accessible to these subjects precisely because they are "outsiders." Such notion, although still used today, underwent remodeling and renaming--as "outsider art"--between 1960/70, following the denaturalization of isolation for the so-called "insane" brought by the Psychiatric Reform and the advent of significant changes in the conception of art and artistic production. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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