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outsider art  

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  • The term outsider art is credited to art critic Roger Cardinal, who in 1972 used it as the English equivalent of art brut, a term used by French artist Jean Dubuffet to describe the rough (brut) art created by inmates in insane asylums. Dr. [Source: Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Justice; Outsider Art]

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