How To Look At Outsider Art

Art and photography writer Rexer (a contributor to The New York Times, Art in America, and Aperture) notes that outsider art "has become a catchall phrase for everything ostensibly raw, untutored, and irrational in art" as it has ascended to its own status within the art world. Including numerous color reproductions of outsider art as illustrative material, he attempts to provide greater definition to the term and to offer means of judging the productions of the genre. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)