'The best-informed and most lucid account of Outsider Art' - Roger Cardinal
Introduction 1. Art Brut and its Affinities 2. Psychopathological Art 3. Alternative Worlds 4. Self-Taught Visionaries 5. Other Positions 6. The Contemporary Turn
Colin Rhodes is a writer, artist and educator. He has written and lectured widely on modern and contemporary art, and is a specialist on expressionism, primitivism and outsider art. He is author of Primitivism & Modern Art (1994), Outsider Art: Spontaneous Alternatives (2000) and The World According to Roger Ballen (2019), all published by Thames & Hudson. He has worked in universities in the UK and Australia and is currently Distinguished Professor at Hunan Normal University, China.