The Grand eccentrics : five centuries of artists outside the main currents of art history / Edited by Thomas B. Hess

Eccentric propositions / Thomas B. Hess -- The visionary French / Michael Benedikt -- The joys and enigmas of a strange hour / John Ashbery -- The canticles of Hieronymus Bosch / Mario Praz -- The moralizing architecture of Jean-Jacques Lequeu / André Chastel -- The artist estranged Messerschmidt and Romako / Lorenz Eitner -- Sir John Soane, museum or mausoleum? / John Jacobus -- Fuseli, Blake, Palmer / David Antin --The imprint of Hercules Seghers / Charles James Wright -- Nineteenth-century eccentrics and the American tradition / William C. Agee.

Eccentric art is, by nature, that passionate connoisseur of the eccentric.

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