Echologorrhea

Outsider Art Is Not A Helpful Term When Discussing Most Art That Gets Made


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Friend of The Indelicates, Mayer, comes to hang out and talk about "outsider art" and the origins of the term itself. Sadly, Wrev could not join us. Spoiler: We think that term sucks!

Supplemental Reading:

Benedetto Croce, The Aesthetic as the Science of Expression and of the Linguistic in General

Minturn, Kent. "Dubuffet, Levi-Strauss, and the Idea of Art Brut". Anthropology and Aesthetics

Outsider Art Fair

Koenig, Raphael (2018), "Art Beyond the Norms: Art of the Insane, Art Brut, and the Avant-Garde from Prinzhorn to Dubuffet" (PDF), Doctoral dissertation, Harvard University, Graduate School of Arts & Sciences

"Jerry Saltz on the Outsider Art Fair — and Why There's No Such Thing As 'Outsider' Art".

"Curator, Tear Down These Walls".

"Monkey Christ fresco boosts tourism"

"Botched restoration has visitors flooding to sleepy Spanish village"

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