Author(s): Caroline Dumalin; Jean-philippe Convert; Chris Kraus; Lars Bang Larsen; Erik Thys

ART BRUT | YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS

This is the first major publication about the work of Belgian poet and artist Sophie Podolski, who has lingered in obscurity since her untimely death at the age of 21.

Born in Brussels in 1953, Podolski's work is emblematic of a time marked by sexual liberation, antipsychiatry and youth disenchantment.  As a self-taught writer and artist, she wrote in an uninhibited and provocative style about life, popular culture, and conformist society.  Known primarily as a poet during her lifetime, this book places emphasis on Podolski's visual practice and highly personal iconography. As well as the original manuscript of her only book, The Country Where Everything Is Permitted (1972), this publication showcases Podolski's remarkable body of graphic works, with over 100 drawings and some of her earliest etchings.