outsider art

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Coined by art critic Roger Cardinal in 1972.

Noun

outsider art (uncountable)

  1. (art) Art by untrained artists, outside of the institutional 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.
    • 2022 March 3, Roberta Smith, “The Outsider Art Fair Returns, in Top Form”, in The New York Times‎[1], →ISSN:
      Outsider art could not be stopped. Once its greatness — and its market potential — was understood, the insider art world opened the flood gates and here we are.

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