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Outsider art : from the margins to the marketplace / David Maclagan.
- Maclagan, David, 1940-
- Date
- 2009
- Books
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Description
A new account of Outsider Art, work produced outside the mainstream by self-taught visionaries, recluses, psychiatric patients and others beyond the perceived margins of society. The author reassesses conventional assumptions about creativity, situating Outsider Art in relation to Modernism and Primitivism.
Publication/Creation
London : Reaktion Books, 2009.
Physical description
192 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 21 cm
Contributors
Contents
1. Art Brut and the Search for the Source of Creative Originality -- 2. Outsider Art and the Creative Role of Collecting -- 3. Art Brut and the Classic Period of Psychotic Art -- 4. Psychotic Art Today and Outsider Art -- 5. Doodling and Other Forms of Automatism -- 6. Problematic Introduction of Outsider Art into the Wider Art World.
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Languages
- English
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Identifiers
ISBN
- 9781861895219
- 1861895216
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