Outsider Art MacLagan David
Outsider Art MacLagan David 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,…
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Outsider Art MacLagan David
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 society. Is this creative instinct a natural, innate phenomenon, requiring only the right circumstances--such as isolation or alienation--in order for it to be cultivated? Yet the idea of such a raw, untaught creativity remains a contentious and much-debated issue in the art world.
Although outsider art is often presented as a recent discovery, these Or is it an idealistic notion projected onto the art and artists by critics and buyers?David Maclagan argues that behind the critical and commercial hype lies a cluster of assumptions about creative drives, the expression of inner worlds, originality, and artistic eccentricity.