22/10/2016

Roger Cardinal / DuBuffet

Roger Cardinal seems to be quite the influencer on discussions of Outsider Art, having essentially coined the term himself as an english synonym for DuBuffet's Art Brut. I made some casual notes on some Cardinal articles, as well as saving quotes into a document:

Outsider Art (review)
  • Seems to be his response to a critique of his book
  • · His language about outsider artists is odd… maybe just dated… but it is archaic and seems derogatory, though in the end makes a point I can see- that O.A might need to be explored in a different way to *inside* art because it is not made in those educated contexts
The Self in Self-Taught Art
  • · Discusses the points of how naming is silly, and how we may define different pursuits
  • · There’s a bunch of artist analyses here too to look up if needed… 
  • · Covers most topics I wanted to discuss in my essay 
  • Self-taught art is never made in a vacuum
  • The idea of self teaching but also self learning
  • · Good point about artists never ever working in isolation, and I think that whilst the identities of the artists may overcome their art, there are many parts of their identities that ARE ignored, like their culture, class, and communities 
Despite DuBuffet being so important in this field I am struggling to find works written by him, maybe  he wrote largely in French. I have found some articles which do reference him, but have not found access to these online (through JStor, EBSCO or ArtSource) or in the library. I have found some things about DuBuffet as a practitioner, but not any of his actual writings. Maybe I just need to look harder....

I'm also struggling to source the basic facts surrounding O.A., such as when it was coined, when things started to happen... (without turning to wikipedia) It might be easier to find in actual books, as journals either 1) assume this knowledge or 2) see it as insignificant when talking about something more specific.

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