Back again to pose something to the massive hole of internet speculation. Many of you out there are familiar with the likes of self-taught painters like Jean-Michel Basquiat, or writers like John Kennedy Toole. I guess my big exciting question for big exciting brains today is this: who feels like an outsider artist, and to what extent?
The Factory wasn't exactly comprised of outsider artists, right? I mean, if you had some kind of formal education in art at some point, does this exclude you? If you were on the periphery of some of the biggest blogs at some of the most exciting times before their authors went supernova (and cussed out some old guard like Card)--where do you go and reckon yourself?
Who's the insider, who's the outsider? When do you swap the mask? I think David Bowie will always be the big shadow of outsider art on the music scene. (Well, him and those weird peeps in Primus.) What extend does that replicate itself in the literary world?
Back in the day, hands down, I would have put William Gibson up there, but he's been so influential to so many authors that he's about as outsider as Brian Eno.
Dunno. Have thoughts. Want to follow them up with other people's, of course.
Back again to pose something to the massive hole of internet speculation. Many of you out there are familiar with the likes of self-taught painters like Jean-Michel Basquiat, or writers like John Kennedy Toole. I guess my big exciting question for big exciting brains today is this: who feels like an outsider artist, and to what extent?
The Factory wasn't exactly comprised of outsider artists, right? I mean, if you had some kind of formal education in art at some point, does this exclude you? If you were on the periphery of some of the biggest blogs at some of the most exciting times before their authors went supernova (and cussed out some old guard like Card)--where do you go and reckon yourself?
Who's the insider, who's the outsider? When do you swap the mask? I think David Bowie will always be the big shadow of outsider art on the music scene. (Well, him and those weird peeps in Primus.) What extend does that replicate itself in the literary world?
Back in the day, hands down, I would have put William Gibson up there, but he's been so influential to so many authors that he's about as outsider as Brian Eno.
Dunno. Have thoughts. Want to follow them up with other people's, of course.