Ecentric Style

by Dr Angelika Taschen and Taschen

Published 28 June 2002
The shrines, sculptures, and environments herein defy tidy explanations. They are labors of love, offspring of obsession, materializations of passion. These works, often categorized as "Art Brut" or "Outsider Art," were created by self-taught men and women working on their own and without connections to the art world: in most cases they did not consider themselves "artists" or their work "art."