title: [Emancipation of the works of artists with psychiatric illness - Artistic reflections from the twentieth century and the Art Brut].
abstract: The study presents the emancipation of the artworks of psychiatric patients through the review of four centuries, focusing on some of the most important medical cultural and art historical stages of the period between the 18th and the 21st century, which is a particularly relevant era in this regard. It touches on the collections linked to psychiatrists and hospitals that were formed primarily on the basis of the researches that were analyzing the connection between creativity and mental illness. After that, the study discusses the ever-changing attitudes and preferences of artists' and major artistic movements towards psychosis and the pictorial world of the psychotic. With great care, it analyses the aesthetic category of the art brut, which is connected to the French painter Jean Dubuffet and was born in the middle of the 1940s, and the relationship between contemporary art and art brut. In connection with some of the most significant art brut collections and exhibitions, the works of a few classical and contemporary art brut artists are also discussed (Adolf Wolfli, Louis Soutter, Aloise Corbaz, August Walla ).
authors.affiliation: Szepmuveszeti Muzeum - Magyar Nemzeti Galeria, 19-21. szazadi Magyar Gyujtemenyi Foosztaly, Festeszeti Osztaly; MTA Pszichiatriai Gyujtemeny - Tudomanyos Tanacsado Testulet elnoke; Tart Kapu Galeria Muveszeti Tanacs tag, Budapest, Hungary, E-mail: plesznivy.edit@mng.hu.
authors.forename: Edit
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Plesznivy
mesh_terms: D001155:Art Therapy / Q000266:history; D003405:Creativity; D005060:Europe; D049671:History, 18th Century; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006778:Hospitals, Psychiatric / Q000266:history*; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000266:history* / Q000523:psychology; D010151:Paintings / Q000266:history* / Q000523:psychology; D011570:Psychiatry / Q000266:history; D011618:Psychotic Disorders / Q000266:history; D012613:Sculpture / Q000266:history; D014481:United States