Uncharacteristically for a diplomat of his rank, he relished every opportunity to get out of the palaces and chancelleries and into the outsiders' world that is the reporter's habitat.
She's the P. T. Barnum of the outsider art world".
She said that she was not allowed to leave the ranch other than to receive medical care, but that the man had left the ranch for a while to go to "the outsider's world".
Since then, several have become justifiably famous, at least in the Outsider Art world: Mose Toliver, Nellie Mae Rowe, David Butler, Sam Doyle, Sister Gertrude Morgan and, most of all, the great Bill Traylor, who seems never to have put a foot wrong artistically.
Phyllis Kind Gallery In "Hands Across the Sea," Phyllis Kind, arguably the doyenne of the outsider art world, sets out to demonstrate that lots of American artists qualify for Art Brut, as defined by Dubuffet.
The outsider art world has drawn its sword, both in defense and attack, amid fear over whether a well-invested champion is attempting to legitimize it as fine art or abandon it.
Some are well-known in the outsider art world, among them Adolf Wolfli, a Swiss mental hospital inmate whose drawings express a vertiginous mix of landscape, music and megalomaniacal autobiography, and Aloise Corbaz, whose swooping, lyrically romantic paintings reflect the obsession about an imaginary love affair with Kaiser Wilhelm that led to her confinement in another Swiss hospital.
There's certainly no band on this planet, or any other, that sounds remotely like the Shaggs, three sisters from New Hampshire whose fervidly atonal 1969 album, "Philosophy of the World," is in many respects the Ur-text of the outsider-music world.
Perhaps the simplest definition arrives from Irwin Chusid, a record producer, D.J. and music historian who has become the Harry Smith of the outsider-music world: "Being an outsider musician is not an aspiration," Chusid says.
Our romantic lead, who'd started the series as "the outsider" of the world Gossip Girl was chronicling.
