Outsider Art

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Outsider Art is the work produced outside the mainstream of modern western art by self-taught, untrained visionaries, spiritualists, eccentric recluses, folk artists, psychiatric p atients, criminals and others beyond the margins of society and the art market. Coined in 1972, the term in English derived from Jean Dubuffet's `Art Brut' - literally `raw art', `uncooked' by culture, unaffected by fashion, unmoved by `artistic standards'. Show more