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Roger Cardinal was a professor at the University of Kent at Canterbury, England, and an art scholar who originated the term "outsider art".
Roger Cardinal, a writer and art historian whose work helped to define a loosely defined field sometimes referred to by the inadequate label of outsider art, has died at 79. The Guardian...
Jan 16, 2020 · Roger Cardinal (1940–2019) was an early champion of Gill's work, and a consultant on the exhibition; we were happy to compare notes. I discovered that he was the author of Outsider Art, which I had read at art school and which had struck me then – back in the 1980s – as revelatory.
In 1972, British art critic Roger Cardinal translated Jean Dubuffet’s art brut within its specific context and passed on the definition through his book“Outside Art”. Curator Roger McDonald revisits the concept of outsider art through an interview with his former teacher.
Roger Cardinal is Emeritus Professor of Literary and Visual Studies of the University of Kent at Canterbury, England. He has been a primary figure in the field of outsider and self-taught art and is a leading authority on surrealism.
Nov 29, 2019 · The British scholar Roger Cardinal, who translated and broadened Jean Dubuffet’s conception of art brut —a label applied to artists who work outside of official cultural institutions—died on November 1 at the age of seventy-nine, according to The Guardian.
It was during this time that British art critic Roger Cardinal translated and continued the concept of art brut, which had been coined and defined by the French artist Jean Dubuffet, and further expanded it through his book Outsider Art, which was published in 1972.
