{"id":6230,"date":"2023-02-12T14:33:27","date_gmt":"2023-02-12T14:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tahneyalexandramay.com\/?p=6230"},"modified":"2023-02-12T14:36:27","modified_gmt":"2023-02-12T14:36:27","slug":"outsider-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tahneyalexandramay.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/12\/outsider-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Plinth | Is It Time to Ditch the Term ‘Outsider Art’?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I ‘hmm’ an eyebrow scrunch whenever I hear the term Outsider Art.<\/h5>

I\u2019m not alone – not many\u00a0like<\/em> this term anymore. It hardly captures the complexity of belonging, determines any true social peripheries around art, or reflects contemporary language on marginalisation in the arts. But it holds on even without fanfare. When it pops up, I flip between discomfort to confusion, thinking: who\u2019s driving the conversation (it\u2019s certainly not the artists)?<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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I ‘hmm’ an eyebrow scrunch whenever I hear the term Outsider Art. I\u2019m not alone – not many like this term anymore. It hardly captures the complexity of belonging, determines any true social peripheries around art, or reflects contemporary language on marginalisation in the arts. But it holds on even without fanfare. When it pops up, I flip between discomfort to confusion, thinking: who\u2019s driving the conversation (it\u2019s certainly not the artists)?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6237,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[529,359],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-writing","category-writing"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tahneyalexandramay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Horace-Lindezey-Danny-Kendall-2022-295x295x10mm-scaled-1.jpeg?fit=1024%2C683&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Pso7-1Cu","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tahneyalexandramay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tahneyalexandramay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tahneyalexandramay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tahneyalexandramay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tahneyalexandramay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6230"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/tahneyalexandramay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6242,"href":"https:\/\/tahneyalexandramay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6230\/revisions\/6242"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tahneyalexandramay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tahneyalexandramay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tahneyalexandramay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tahneyalexandramay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}