Dubuffet Prints from the Museum of Modern Art - Softcover

from the Foreword: "Arguably the most significant figurative artist to emerge in Europe following World War II, Jean Dubuffet challenged traditional attitudes toward art, creating an expansive body of work inspired by the everyday and the art of children and the insane. Dubuffet elevated objects previously overlooked or considered unsuitable as subject matter - decaying walls and cluttered streets became the backdrop for compressed, highly charge tableaus of people riding bicycles, gathering potatoes, or giving birth. Dubuffet also incorporated the substance of the environment - dirt, grass, leaves, pebbles - into his visual vocabulary, resulting in an endless array of textural studies. This exhibition highlights Dubuffet's printmaking activities, which largely paralleled the artist's work in painting and sculpture. However, Dubuffet regarded printmaking as a distinct activity within his oeuvre. In the mid-1940's, soon after he seriously committed himself to a career in art, Dubuffet b