Jean Dubuffet: Spur Eines Abenteuers/Trace of an Adventure

The essays and artworks in this volume examine Dubuffet's innovative use of materials, stylistic treatment, and content, and his transition from two- to three-dimensional forms. This book allows for a clearer understanding of the three major phases of his work: from the beginning of the forties when Dubuffet began to work with materials that were alien to art and culminating in his magnificent "Materiologies", through the most comprehensive cycle of works, "Hourloupe", to his later works in the eighties, which include "Theatre de memoire", "Brefs exercices", "Psycho-sites", "Mires" and "Non lieux". Through the comparison of paintings and sculptural works, "Jean Dubuffet: Trace of an Adventure" illustrates the defining tensions in Dubuffet's work.