Wild Art : Wild Art

Wild Art : Wild Art
ISBN: 9780714865676
Publication Date: 14 October 2013

Wild Art will be a visual exploration of everything and anything from outside the exclusive and rarefied spectrum of the 'Art World'.

It will present a highly illustrated account of the most exciting examples of the vast multitude of 'other' art worlds - mostly left unmentioned within the professional art literature - that proliferate outside the boundaries of the Art World. The art that most professionals - art critics, art historians, artists, auctioneers, collectors and dealers tend to ignore.

At its heart, this book raises the question of what constitutes 'art' by celebrating the artists and art forms that are usually ignored by the art establishment.

Envisaged as a chunky, bold and brash book, Wild Art will feature 480 pages of extraordinary things that defy taste and art world standards of acceptability. A panoply of 'artistic creations' made outside the Art World, including erotic paintings, sand sculptures, ice sculptures, body art, customised cars, art made out of food, discarded drink cans, minuscule pin-heads sculptures, crazy Christmas lights, pavement art and much more. Featuring 350 captioned images, a text introduction and chapter introductions, Wild Art, celebrates the very best, bizarre and brilliant from the world of 'outsider art'.

About the Author

David Carrier is an American philosopher and art and culture critic. He was formerly a professor at Case Western Reserve University, the Cleveland Institute of Art and Carnegie Mellon University. He has written for major magazines such as Art Forum, the Brooklyn Rail and the Burlington Magazine. Joachim Pissarro is currently the Bershad Professor of Art History and Director of the Hunter College Galleries at the City University of New York (CUNY). He was formerly a Curator in the Department of ...