"Primitive Art," "Outsider Art," "Folk Art"

As far as "outsider art" goes, I am rather skeptical of its veracity, due to the name. To me, this sounds like an ad man's label, made for marketing something "different."

"outsider" art: http://www.avam.org/ (American Visionary Museum) If nothing else, this site is fun to move around on to watch the active images jump around... and to investigate.

It seems also that quite a few people are using the label "outsider art" to mean art done by people with various forms of disabilities.

Take a look at these web pages and go from there. The Folk Art guide also gives good definitions of the various "labels." A good place for jumping off into the sea of folk art.

http://folkart.about.com/arts/folkart/

These sites on Folk Art I find to be really wonderful, for the Folk Art Society of America.

http://www.folkart.org/index.html

http://www.folkart.org/folklinks.html (Whee! Links!!!)

Another terrific Folk Art site: The Museum of International Folk Art, in Santa Fe. http://www.state.nm.us/moifa/MOIFAhome/M...

I will be thinking and searching and adding more here as time goes on. Keep coming back. Or, if you find a good site, let me know, and I can put it up.

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