outsider art

English

Alternative forms

• Outsider Art

Etymology

Coined by art critic Roger Cardinal in 1972.

Noun

outsider art (uncountable)

1. (art) Art by untrained artists, outside of the institutional mainstream.
   • 2006, Liz Aggiss, Billy Cowie ed., Anarchic Dance, Routledge, →ISBN, page 48:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

   • 2022 March 3, Roberta Smith, “The Outsider Art Fair Returns, in Top Form”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     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.

Derived terms

• outsider artist

Related terms

• outsider music

Translations

art by untrained artists

• French: art brut (fr) m
• Macedonian: маргинална уметност f (marginalna umetnost)

Further reading

• outsider art on Wikipedia.Wikipedia