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
Summary
The term outsider art has been used to describe work produced exterior to the mainstream of modern art by certain self-taught visionaries, spiritualists, eccentrics, recluses, psychiatric patients, criminals, and others beyond the perceived margins of soc
