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self-taught art
n. a genre of art and outdoor constructions made by untrained artists who do not recognize themselves as artists [syn: outsider art, vernacular art, naive art, primitive art]
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MacGregor is the author of the 1988 The Discovery of the Art of the Insane, a seminal study of one manifestation of the form that has been variously called Art Brut, Folk Art, Self-Taught Art, Visionary Art, but which is now commonly classed under the catchall term Outsider Art.