'Outsider art' is work produced outside the mainstream of modern art by self-taught visionaries, spiritualists, eccentrics, recluses, psychiatric patients, criminals, and others beyond the perceived margins of society. Coined in 1972 the term is derived from 'art brut', which the artist Jean Dubuffet began promoting just after the Second World War. Both focus on the idea of a 'raw', untaught creativity, which is still a contentious and much-debated issue. Is this a natural phenomenon, requiring only the right circumstances (isolation or alienation) to be revealed; or is it more like a mirage projected by the very culture it is supposed to be escaping from?
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Reaktion Books
ISBN-13
9781861895219
eBay Product ID (ePID)
96293941
Product Key Features
Book Title
Outsider Art: from the Margins to the Marketplace
Author
David Maclagan
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Art Theory
Publication Year
2009
Number of Pages
176 Pages
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
David Maclagan
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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