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OUTSIDERS BOOK PUBLISHED
The Outsiders by Steve Lazarides
Hardcover, 264 pages
Publisher: Century
ISBN: 978-1-84605-545-4 (1-84605-545-8)
From
The Independent:
Published to accompany the Outsiders exhibitions in London, New York and the Walsall New Art Gallery. Features work by Faile, Banksy, Antony Micallef, Jonathan Yeo, Conor Harrington, David Choe....and other usual suspects.
"The Outsiders' work is actually chosen very subjectively. It's just a collection of work I admire, as do other people it seems from the numbers. The Outsiders' show that we have running in New York, has, since 26 September, had more than 30,000 visitors, and this is without any advertising for the show. This more than anything gives an indication of the populist nature of the work, and how far it has come in the past decade.
The internet has played a huge part in the popularity of the Outsider artists. What other museum is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, with no entry fee? All the artists have websites and a considerable net presence. Mostly, though, the art we show is so popular now because people enjoy its aesthetics as well as its messages, even if they don't agree with them. We live in highly politicised times and that doesn't get addressed a great deal by culture. The majority of the Outsiders' work is very accessible – you don't need an art history degree to understand it; the same way an idea isn't necessarily any less powerful if not communicated in a complex manner.
Both the book and the show are entitled "Outsiders" because a considerable proportion of the artists included have chosen to display their work in the public domain of the street. But equally they're Outsiders because they've made their name without taking the traditional path. Many haven't had any formal art training. Some landed on my desk by chance. But most I took the first step in approaching after seeing their work in – or on – their chosen medium of the "outside" world..."
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