outsider art
English
Alternative forms
- Outsider Art
Etymology
Coined by art critic Roger Cardinal in 1972.
Noun
- Art by untrained artists, outside of the mainstream.
- 2006, Liz Aggiss, Billy Cowie ed., Anarchic Dance, Routledge (→ISBN), page 48:
- Outsider Art is increasingly recognized as a representation of the purest and most direct form of artistic creation.
- 2014, Ian Buchanan, Lorna Collins, Deleuze and the Schizoanalysis of Visual Art, A&C Black (→ISBN), page 57:
- The concepts of raw art and outsider art were typical of a time when oppositional politics still infused artistic and academic discourses.
- 2015, Ekaterina Sukhanova, Hans-Otto Thomashoff, Body Image and Identity in Contemporary Societies, Routledge (→ISBN), page 11:
- Inherent in all artistic activity, these dialogical mechanisms become particularly striking in outsider art and can serve as a basis for fighting stigma.
- 2015, Adam Geczy, Jacqueline Millner, Fashionable Art, Bloomsbury Publishing (→ISBN), page 160:
- The principal problem with Outsider Art is the most obvious: it is so often so bad.
- 2006, Liz Aggiss, Billy Cowie ed., Anarchic Dance, Routledge (→ISBN), page 48:
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