Article
Low, David. "For the Love of Creativity: The Passionate Pursuit
of Self-Taught Artists: A Conversation with Barry M. Cohen, Collector."
National Endowment for the Arts.
Link: http://arts.endow.gov/artforms/Folk/Outsider.html
David Low, of the National Endowment for the Arts, interviews
Barry M. Cohen, a renowned collector and researcher of outsider
art and psychiatry for more than 30 years, a board certified art
therapist and a painter. This article is a well-written, broad introduction
to the definitions of outsider art and its synonyms, the major figures
and their motivations for creating or studying this art, and its
current status in the art world.
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Databases and Indexes
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Art Index
Art Index is a database that contains bibliographic information
and summaries of more than 300 art journals, dating back to 1984.
ARTbibliographies Modern
This database contains bibliographic information and summaries from
Impressionism (late 1800s) through the modern era, focusing on lesser
known artists and newer movements.
Arts and Humanities Citation Index
This database does not have as many articles as the indexes above,
but it is the main humanities index.
Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA)
This database allows you to search through 4,360 journals by artist,
author, title, journal, keyword and more. The index includes summaries
and detailed information on each article. It also contains several
entries pointing to reviews of books and summaries of essays within
books. Raw Vision
is indexed here, so this is a good place to find a particular article.
Grove Dictionary of Art Online
An extremely broad resource (45,000 articles from more than 6,800
scholars) with full-text articles, this is the online version of
the Grove Dictionary of Art published in 1996 (34 vols.
edited by Jane Turner). New material is added quarterly.
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