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outsider art

noun

Etymology

Coined by art critic Roger Cardinal in 1972.

Definitions

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

    • Outsider Art is increasingly recognized as a representation of the purest and most direct form of artistic creation.
    • The concepts of raw art and outsider art were typical of a time when oppositional politics still infused artistic and academic discourses.
    • Inherent in all artistic activity, these dialogical mechanisms become particularly striking in outsider art and can serve as a basis for fighting stigma.

  2. Alternative form of outsider art.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for outsider art. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA