outsider art
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Coined by art critic Roger Cardinal in 1972.
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- (art) Art by untrained artists, outside of the institutional mainstream.
- 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.
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art by untrained artists
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- outsider art on Wikipedia.Wikipedia