1948

Fondation of the Compagnie de l’Art Brut by Jean Dubuffet, with André Breton, Jean Paulhan, Charles Ratton, Henri-Pierre Roché, Michel Tapié, and Slavko Kopac. Michel Ragon organizes the exhibition Art brut, naïvisme et littérature prolétarienne at Portes de France gallery, in Paris.

In Woodstock, Clarence Schmidt (1897-1978) starts building his “house of mirrors”. Simon Rodia finishes the Watts towers.

Publication of “L’art des fous, la clé des champs” by André Breton, in Cahiers de la Pléiade, n° 6.