Outsider Art：Spontaneous Alternatives (World of Art)

OutsiderArtisworkproducedoutsidethemainstreamofmodernartbyself-taught,untrainedvisionaries,spiritualists,eccentricrecluses,folkartists,psychiatricpatients,criminals,andothersbeyondtheimposedmarginsofsocietyandtheartmarket.CoinedbyRogerCardinalin1972,theterminEnglishderivedfromJeanDubuffet's"artbrut"--literally"rawart,""uncooked"byculture,unaffectedbyfashion,unmovedbyartisticstandards.InthisindispensablebookColinRhodessurveysthehistoryandreceptionofOutsiderArt--firstchampionedbyDubuffetandtheSurrealists,nowappreciatedbyawidepublic--whileprovidinginsightintotheachievementsofbothmajorfiguresandnewlydiscoveredartists.Fromspirit-guidedMadgeGilltoschizophrenicAdolfWlfli,theseindividualspassionatelyandobsessivelypursuethepictorialexpressionoftheirvision.