outsider art

alternative Outsider Art

1. uncountableartArt by untrained artists, outside of the institutional mainstream.

   The principal problem with Outsider Art is the most obvious: it is so often so bad.

   2015, Adam Geczy, Jacqueline Millner, Fashionable Art, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 160

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   Outsider Art is increasingly recognized as a representation of the purest and most direct form of artistic creation.

   2006, Liz Aggiss, Billy Cowie ed., Anarchic Dance, Routledge, →ISBN, page 48

   The concepts of raw art and outsider art were typical of a time when oppositional politics still infused artistic and academic discourses.

   2014, Ian Buchanan, Lorna Collins, Deleuze and the Schizoanalysis of Visual Art, A&C Black, →ISBN, page 57

   Inherent in all artistic activity, these dialogical mechanisms become particularly striking in outsider art and can serve as a basis for fighting stigma.

   2015, Ekaterina Sukhanova, Hans-Otto Thomashoff, Body Image and Identity in Contemporary Societies, Routledge, →ISBN, page 11

   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.

   2022 March 3, Roberta Smith, “The Outsider Art Fair Returns, in Top Form”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

1. alternativeuncountableAlternative form of outsider art.