collective of 19 authors
Vladimir Vitalievitch ABAKOUMOV
Director of the Museum of Outsider Art in Moscow
Andreï Vadimovitch AZOV
Professor, Doctor of Philosophical Sciences, titular of the chair
of philosophy at the K. Ushinsky Pedagogical University, Iaroslavl.
Tatiana Vladimirovna BACHAEVA
Doctor of Psychological Sciences
P. Demidov State University, Iaroslavl
Ksenia Georgievna BOGUEMSKAYA
Doctor of Sciences, art critic, leading research fellow
at the State Institute of Art Studies.
Alain BOUILLET
Professor in educational sciences at the University of Montpellier 3,
member of the board of L’Aracine
and author of numerous writings on Art brut.
Roger CARDINAL
Writer and independent researcher, former Professor in comparative
literature and art history at the University of Kent, England,
an expert on Art brut, modern poetry and Surrealism,
inventor of the concept of Outsider Art.
Bernard CHEROT
Philosophy teacher, President of L’Aracine.
Vladimir Ivanovitch CHESTAKOV
Psychiatrist from Iaroslavl who worked at the Afonino Psychiatric
Hospital between 1979 and 1998.
Laurent DANCHIN
Former student of the Ecole Normale Supérieure, agrégé in modern French
literature, art critic and teacher, expert on Art brut and Singular Art,
and French correspondent of the magazine Raw Vision.
Igor Viatcheslavovitch GAVRILOV
Executive director and artistic manager of the Jazz Centre in Iaroslavl.
Retired mathematics teacher.
Vladimir Viatcheslavovitch GAVRILOV
Doctor in Iaroslavl.
Patricia JANODY
Psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and writer.
International College of Philosophy.
Madeleine LOMMEL
President of L’Aracine. She died in April 2009.
Alexandre Sergeevitch MIGOUNOV
Professor, Doctor of Philosophical Sciences, titular of the chair
of aesthetics in the philosophy faculty at the Lomonossov
University of Moscow (MGU).
Dominique de MISCAULT
Artist.
Lucienne PEIRY
Director of the Collection de l’Art Brut in Lausanne.
Guy ROUX
Psychiatrist, Honory President of the S.I.P.E.,
author of numerous writings.
Gérard SENDREY
President and Founder in Bègles of the Site “Création Franche“.
Anna Nikolaevna YARKINA
Art historian, Deputy Director of the Museum of
Outsider Art in Moscow.
Artistic direction of the work
Alain Escudier
Graphic Designer and
photographer author of many books