Abstract
Over the past hundred years, artefacts produced by people with mental disabilities or who live various forms of social marginalization have been collected, investigated, exhibited and discussed. However, absolute criteria to consider them as works of art or, on the contrary, as mere expressive productions without aesthetic qualities are yet to come. Still, it is now possible to trace the history of the matter, hence to infer useful elements for a general reflection. Paying a specific attention to the case of the City of Turin, that holds one of the oldest and richest Art Brut collections in Italy (eg. Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography), the history of this process is here reconstructed connecting the international with the local emergence of this production. Furthermore, the dialogue now going on with irregular and contemporary artworks in exhibitions and projects is also investigated.
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