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Outsider Art
Roger Cardinal

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PROJECT STATUS: This book has been proposed as a project and is now seeking team members. Using the links at left, apply to join the team and help make this book happen. "...writer Roger Cardinal coined the term 'Outsider Art' as an equivalent for the French term 'Art Brut' in his now seminal book Outsider Art, more than a quarter of a century ago.... Taking his lead from [Jean] Dubuffet, he constructed a canon of Outsiders measured by the extent of their perceived anti-cultural position. Since that time Cardinal has been a key figure in defining and reviewing the territory..." (Colin Rhodes, Outsider Art: Spontaneous Alternatives) Widely considered one of the premier works in the category -- second only to Dubuffet's earlier Asphyxiating Culture -- Cardinal's Outsider Art includes a series of introductory overview essays followed by profiles of nearly thirty Outsider artists. Project Notes: Outsider Art is out of print. First published in 1972, it would still be under copyright, presumably with the author. If an interested team were to form, their first step would be to contact the author to determine copyright status and seek his involvement in the project. Edited, packaged and marketed together as foundational Outsider Art texts, this book and Dubuffet's Asphyxiating Culture, might make a good two-book project for a team.