Sentences with phrase «claim outsider art»

Critics who claim outsider art as an influence on the American modern miss the real story.

Roberta Smith of The Times, who often singles out new work touched by native traditions, has called for fully integrating folk art and Americana into museum displays of past decades, much as another show has claimed outsider art in Switzerland as an inspiration for Abstract Expressionism.

Not exact matches

Her woven tracery pops off the canvas, less like Pollock than Janet Sobel, who has claims both to inventing drip painting and to outsider art.

(«It's southern outsider art,» Deitch claimed in an offhand interview.

Now that anything can be art, the outsider still claims a place apart.