Roger Cardinal was a professor at the University of Kent at Canterbury, England, and an art scholar who originated the term "outsider art".

Career

He studied at

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in south London and attended

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as an undergraduate. His PhD, also at Cambridge, was on the surrealist conception of love. In 1965 he became an assistant professor in the French department of the

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, he moved to the

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at Canterbury.

Contributions

He was the author of books including ''Surrealism: Permanent Revelation'' (1970, with Robert Short) and ''Outsider Art'' (1972), and was professor of literary and visual studies at the

. ''Outsider Art'' was the first book in English to be published on the subject of art brut and introduced the term "

outsider art Outsider art is art made by self-taught or supposedly naïve artists with typically little or no contact with the conventions of the art worlds. In many cases, their work is discovered only after their deaths. Often, outsider art illustrate ...

". In 1979 he and Victor Musgrave curated ''Outsiders'' at the

Hayward Gallery The Hayward Gallery is an art gallery within the Southbank Centre in central London, England and part of an area of major arts venues on the South Bank of the River Thames. It is sited adjacent to the other Southbank Centre buildings (the R ...

, London. Cardinal published widely on individual outsider artists and wrote essays on outsider architecture, prison art, autistic art, and memory painting. He was a contributing editor of ''

Raw Vision ''Raw Vision''rawvision.com is a British magazine devoted to outsider art and edited by John Maizels. It features content about the subject worldwide. History ''Raw Vision'' was founded by John Maizels in 1989 as a way of telling people about ou ...

'' and co-wrote ''Raw Erotica'' (2013) along with John Maizels and Colin Rhodes. Cardinal was also on the International Jury of the INSITA Triannual Exhibition, held in Slovakia.
INSITA International Triennial of Self-Taught Art
' (2010, 9th Triennial), accessed 2019-11-06.

Bibliography

Library of Congress: Cardinal, Roger

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Cardinal, Roger 1940 births 2019 deaths Academics of the University of Kent Alumni of the University of Cambridge Art writers British art historians