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Toni Torino
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Re: Music of the mad.
Aug 17, 2011, 11:46
Robot Emperor wrote:

In the art world those considered to be making outsider art are characterised by their lack of concern over what happens to their work after it is completed, its creation is their only concern, an act of exocism. There are dealers in work from asylums and community care groups where people hunt for bargains. Not a comfortable image.


This great thread has made me think of Stephen Wiltshire.

In the late 80s he appeared on a tv programme about autistic artists. His particular "gift" was to be able to draught astoundingly accurate depictions, usually buldings, but mirror-imaged. I remember being suspicious at the time as his pics were hung in boardrooms and the like, that his agent would tell him to draw someting and he would draw it. Seems like she did right by him, but she nust have profited as well.
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