Outsider art : from the margins to the marketplace / David Maclagan.

The term outsider art has been used to describe work produced exterior to the mainstream of modern art by certain self-taught visionaries, spiritualists, eccentrics, recluses, psychiatric patients, criminals, and others beyond the perceived margins of soc.

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Main Author: Maclagan, David, 1940-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Reaktion Books, ©2009.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Art Brut and the Search for the Source of Creative Originality
  • 2. Outsider Art and the Creative Role of Collecting
  • 3. Art Brut and the Classic Period of Psychotic Art
  • 4. Psychotic Art Today and Outsider Art
  • 5. Doodling and Other Forms of Automatism
  • 6. Problematic Introduction of Outsider Art into the Wider Art World.