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Ownership Signature of Roger Cardinal with some Marginal Markings. Near Fine in publishers decorated wrappers. 68pp. Illustrated in colour throughout.Roger Cardinal was one of BritainÕs most distinguished art historians, best known for defining what is generally known as Outsider Art - that is, art by people with no formal training. He began his career as a lecturer at the French department of the University of Manitoba, Canada, subsequently moving to Warwick University and finally to the University of Kent at Canterbury, where he taught for fifty years and held a professorship.Roger Cardinal was not only a leading authority on Outsider Art, but also on Surrealism. He was a prolific writer and a master of literary style. His eloquent, percipient writings include several books on a wide range of subjects such as Outsider Art (1972), German Romantics in Context (1975) Figures of Reality (1981), Expressionism (1984), The Landscape Vision of Paul Nash (1989), The Cultures of Collecting (1994), and Kurt Schwitters (2011). He also acted as a curator and was a regular contributor to art-historical publications.CardinalÕs interest in art lay in its margins - the neurodiverse, psychotic, uneducated, autistic, self-taught and ÔotherÕ. His fascination with artists such as the violently psychotic Adolf Wlfli lay in their creativity rather than in the sensationalism of their lives. Certainly, it did not lie in the resale value of their work. That outsider art should have its own multimillion-dollar annual fair in New York and specialist departments at ChristieÕs auctioneers ran quite contrary to CardinalÕs thinking.

68 pages plus covers. Paperback: H 22.75cm x L 21.5cm. Blue paper covers rubbed with some scuffing at edges. Slight foxing to text block edges with some light foxing occurring to interior pages. Laid-in is a folded photocopy of a Village Voice review of the exhibit which has handwritten seven-line note "Dear Bill + Joan . . ." to past owners from "Judy" (presumably curator and contributor Judith McWillie); also laid-in are some INTAR Hispanic Arts Center promotional sheets regarding the exhibit. Exhibition catalog reviews artists: Archie Byron, Hawkins Bolden, Thornton Dial (of Bessemer, Alabama), Minnie Evans, Ralph Griffin, Dilmus Hall, Lonnie Holley (Birmingham, Alabama), Joe Light, Charlie Lucas (Elmore County, Alabama), J.B. Murray, and Mary T. Smith (Hazlehurst, Mississippi). Although without any markings as such, the book's past owners were wife and husband Joan T. Mallonee and William G. Doty (1939-2017). Professor Doty was University of Alabama Professor Emeritus of Humanities and Religious Studies and a renowned scholar, lecturer, editor, and prolific author who wrote twenty books and over seventy essays not only regarding his primary fields of myth and mythology but delving into other disciplines including anthropology, classics, and psychology, as well as a profound interest in the history and analysis of southern folk art and, in particular, the outsider art of Alabama.