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Outsider art  

Definition

  • Term devised by Robert Cardinal to describe artworks that represent an alternative to the academic, official, professional and cultural art of museums and galleries; he included Art Brut (q.v.) and works by uneducated, "innocent" artists such as hermits and mediums

Entry terms

  • Art, isolate, outsider art
  • Art of the insane, outsider art
  • Art, outsider
  • Art, psychiatric, outsider art
  • Art, psychotic, outsider art
  • Art, raw, outsider art
  • Art, self-taught, outsider art
  • Art, visionary, outsider art
  • Insane, art of the, outsider art
  • Isolate art, outsider art
  • Psychiatric art, outsider art
  • Psychotic art, outsider art
  • Raw art, outsider art
  • Self-taught art, outsider art

Notation

  • 110705

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JLC-N7Z19GJ0-6

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