Word: outsiderã
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...social studies concentrator in Winthrop House. His column, “Sardonic Verses,” will attempt social critique by arguing the unexpected. Expect an irreverent outsider??s perspective on the daily news, campus issues, and the world in general on alternate Fridays...
...resisted being sucked into the electronic morass of social awkwardness and procrastination that Zuckerberg hath wrought, and thus he had a level-headed perspective on the issue that many here lack. Once you get sucked into thefacebook, one creates rationalizations for prolonging its use. In this case, an outsider??s perspective has shone light on a topic that has a blind sense of school pride attached...
...unfocused graphic energy—feels very contemporary, very post-modern. It’s tempting, then, to compliment Consalvos’ work by calling it years ahead of its time (Consalvos worked between 1910 and 1940). But one of the major traps of dealing with “outsider?? art is that in welcoming it into the mainstream (no matter how well-meaning our efforts to legitimize it may be) there is a real danger that we will lose sight of the qualities that make it special in the first place...
...work itself has little substance, so even after you have figured out its meaning you are left with the feeling that it is not very meaningful per se. Thus, I think it’s possible for contemporary practice to be more thematically pregnant than “outsider?? art (it is easier to understand the artists intentions) but actually less meaningful (there does not seem to be much of the artist himself invested...
...tempting to end my review here, but that would be to fall into another major trap of talking about “outsider?? art: to credit the work with a mystical force and purity based solely on a fetishization of the biography of the artist. While I certainly do admire the intensity with which Castle must have been driven to make those drawings, I also think that they are some of the most beautiful and challenging works on paper I have seen in a long time. Castle’s sooty medium gives his drawings an eerie, cloudy...