Re:What does “outsider artist” even mean? (2012)
by s-shellfish on Sunday July 22, 2018 @05:31PM
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Art theory and psychology also frequently connect outsider art to mental illness, which doesn't really help the associated stigma and consequent classism. Rather, it tends to more tightly bind the two together, by creating an implicit relation, which persists in the collective cultural consciousness.
This clearly will affect an artist's perception of themselves depending on what level of success they obtain for themselves.
Source: a self professed, so called 'tortured artist'. Unsuccessful in the arts by choice, but still affected by the stigma as a computer scientist. Change culture: solve problems -> make more of them.
Re:What does “outsider artist” even mean? (2012)
by extralego on Sunday July 22, 2018 @09:54PM
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For real! This part is so gross! Glad you added this point.
Re:What does “outsider artist” even mean? (2012)
by yontherubicon on Sunday July 22, 2018 @05:26PM
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Considering the ugliness espoused by "The Art World," I can't imagine that any true artist would want to be anything other than an "Outsider Artist."
Pierre Bourdieu does as decent job as any in breaking down the social topology of class, but his legacy is fraught with his failure to sufficiently account for many economic phenomena that are constantly becoming more clear. It’s hard to elaborat on these in short. The case study of outsider art is a useful case study both in defense of and in objection to Bourdieu’s comprehensions of social class.
The insistence on a distinction so classist as “outsider art” is just another shameful depravity in the name of maintaining a VIP zone for the bourgeois in a world of mass media. Let’s remember “the art world” didn’t exist until the 90s.