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@article{ART002536170},
author={HAN EUI JUNG},
title={Museum of Obsessions: Harald Szeemann and Outsider Art},
journal={Journal of History of Modern Art},
issn={1598-7728},
year={2019},
number={46},
pages={7-35},
doi={10.17057/kahoma.2019..46.001}

TY - JOUR
AU - HAN EUI JUNG
TI - Museum of Obsessions: Harald Szeemann and Outsider Art
JO - Journal of History of Modern Art
PY - 2019
VL - null
IS - 46
PB - 현대미술사학회
SP - 7
EP - 35
SN - 1598-7728
AB - This study examines Harald Szeemann’s art exhibitions which introduce outsider art to the center of official art. Harald Szeemann did not treat outsider art as a ghetto far from social and cultural institutions, like Jean Dubuffet, but rather as a trend toward Gesamtkunstwerk, in which arts, documents and objects create a utopian world beyond the borders between insider and outsider. In his slogan ‘Museum of Obsessions’, obsession becomes an intense energy driving vision and free expression. Among the exhibitions that show the ‘museum of obsessions’, this study deals with those that are deeply connected with outsider art. The first period is from the years of Kunsthalle Bern (1961-1969) to the famous Documenta 5 (1972), with the theme of ‘Artistic activities of the mentally ill.’ The second period deals with ‘An archive impulse’ in the exhibition Grandfather (1974), which dealt with the artist’s grandfather’s belongings, and The Bachelor Machines (1975), which deals with the artists’ obsessions with machines. Third, in the exhibitions Monte Verità (1978) and Tendency toward the Gesamtkunstwerk (1983), which show ‘the aspiration for Utopia’, Szeemann shows both the totality and the originality of outsider art. And fourth, the series of exhibitions about the visionary artists of Switzerland (1992), Austria (1996) and Belgium (2005) help us to experience the various scenographies of his ‘museum of obsessions’ project.
KW - Harald Szeemann;outsider art;Jean Dubuffet;Art brut;self-taught art;Museum of Obsessions
DO - 10.17057/kahoma.2019..46.001
ER -

HAN EUI JUNG. (2019). Museum of Obsessions: Harald Szeemann and Outsider Art. Journal of History of Modern Art, 46, 7-35.

HAN EUI JUNG. 2019, "Museum of Obsessions: Harald Szeemann and Outsider Art", Journal of History of Modern Art, no.46, pp.7-35. Available from: doi:10.17057/kahoma.2019..46.001

HAN EUI JUNG "Museum of Obsessions: Harald Szeemann and Outsider Art" Journal of History of Modern Art 46 pp.7-35 (2019) : 7.

HAN EUI JUNG. Museum of Obsessions: Harald Szeemann and Outsider Art. 2019; 46 : 7-35. Available from: doi:10.17057/kahoma.2019..46.001

HAN EUI JUNG. "Museum of Obsessions: Harald Szeemann and Outsider Art" Journal of History of Modern Art no.46(2019) : 7-35.doi: 10.17057/kahoma.2019..46.001

HAN EUI JUNG. Museum of Obsessions: Harald Szeemann and Outsider Art. Journal of History of Modern Art, 46, 7-35. doi: 10.17057/kahoma.2019..46.001

HAN EUI JUNG. Museum of Obsessions: Harald Szeemann and Outsider Art. Journal of History of Modern Art. 2019; 46 7-35. doi: 10.17057/kahoma.2019..46.001

HAN EUI JUNG. Museum of Obsessions: Harald Szeemann and Outsider Art. 2019; 46 : 7-35. Available from: doi:10.17057/kahoma.2019..46.001

HAN EUI JUNG. "Museum of Obsessions: Harald Szeemann and Outsider Art" Journal of History of Modern Art no.46(2019) : 7-35.doi: 10.17057/kahoma.2019..46.001