{"title":"From Marginalia to the Museum: The Transfiguration of the Doodle by Gottfried Keller, Hans Prinzhorn, and Jean Dubuffet","authors":"A. Meyertholen","doi":"10.3138/seminar.58.4.1","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In 1922 German art historian and psychiatrist Hans Prinzhorn published his groundbreaking monograph Bildnerei der Geisteskranken, which psychologically and aesthetically analyzed the art of the mentally ill. Tucked away in a footnote is reference to an episode in Gottfried Keller's novel Der grüne Heinrich (1855, 1879/80) when the title artist creates a monstrous web of doodles. This essay explores the implications of Keller's doodle for Prinzhorn's thesis along with the re-evaluation of doodling as a legitimate creative gesture. It concludes by following the doodle into the museum through the artworks of Jean Dubuffet, a pioneering force behind outsider art who was influenced by Prinzhorn's Bildnerei and wielded the doodle as critique against traditional notions of art. Doodles' journey from marginalia to museum-worthy artworks reveals their subversive power to give voice to those marginalized by society, while also exposing the weaknesses and paradoxes of an outsider art for effecting true institutional reform.","PeriodicalId":44556,"journal":{"name":"SEMINAR-A JOURNAL OF GERMANIC STUDIES","volume":"37 1","pages":"361 - 385"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5000,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"SEMINAR-A JOURNAL OF GERMANIC STUDIES","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.3138/seminar.58.4.1","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"LITERATURE, GERMAN, DUTCH, SCANDINAVIAN","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract:In 1922 German art historian and psychiatrist Hans Prinzhorn published his groundbreaking monograph Bildnerei der Geisteskranken, which psychologically and aesthetically analyzed the art of the mentally ill. Tucked away in a footnote is reference to an episode in Gottfried Keller's novel Der grüne Heinrich (1855, 1879/80) when the title artist creates a monstrous web of doodles. This essay explores the implications of Keller's doodle for Prinzhorn's thesis along with the re-evaluation of doodling as a legitimate creative gesture. It concludes by following the doodle into the museum through the artworks of Jean Dubuffet, a pioneering force behind outsider art who was influenced by Prinzhorn's Bildnerei and wielded the doodle as critique against traditional notions of art. Doodles' journey from marginalia to museum-worthy artworks reveals their subversive power to give voice to those marginalized by society, while also exposing the weaknesses and paradoxes of an outsider art for effecting true institutional reform.
摘要:1922年，德国艺术史学家、精神病学家汉斯·普林中恩出版了开创性的专著《精神病患的艺术》，从心理和美学角度分析了精神病患的艺术。隐藏在脚注中的是戈特弗里德·凯勒(Gottfried Keller)的小说《Der gr ne Heinrich》(1855,1879/80)中的一个情节，当时标题艺术家创作了一个巨大的涂鸦网。这篇文章探讨了凯勒的涂鸦对普林斯霍恩论文的影响，以及对涂鸦作为一种合法的创造性姿态的重新评估。最后，通过让·杜布菲(Jean Dubuffet)的作品跟随涂鸦进入博物馆，杜布菲是局外人艺术背后的先锋力量，他受到普林斯顿的比尔德纳雷(Bildnerei)的影响，并将涂鸦作为对传统艺术观念的批判。涂鸦从边缘到值得博物馆收藏的艺术作品的历程，揭示了它们为社会边缘群体发声的颠覆力量，同时也暴露了局外人艺术在影响真正的制度改革方面的弱点和悖论。
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The first issue of Seminar appeared in the Spring of 1965, sponsored jointly by the Canadian Association of University Teachers of German (CAUTG) and the German Section of the Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association (AULLA). This collaborative sponsorship has continued to the present day, with the Journal essentially a Canadian scholarly journal, its Editors all Canadian, likewise its publisher, and managerial and editorial decisions taken by the Editor and/or the Canadian Editorial Committee,the Australasian Associate Editor being responsible for the selection of articles submitted from that area.
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