Maclagan, David,  1940- <br/><br/>
Outsider art :  from the margins to the marketplace / 
David Maclagan. 
 - London :  Reaktion Books,  c2009. 
 - 192 p. :  ill. (cheifly col.) ;  21 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> A new account of Outsider Art, work produced outside the mainstream by self-taught visionaries, recluses, psychiatric patients and others beyond the perceived margins of society. The author reassesses conventional assumptions about creativity, situating Outsider Art in relation to Modernism and Primitivism. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>1861895216 (hbk.) 9781861895219 (hbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Outsider art--History.<br/>Outsider artists--Psychology.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>709.0422 MAC