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
St Dunstan's College in south London and attended
Gonville and Caius College,
University of Cambridge 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
University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Canada. After a stint as a university lecturer at
Warwick University, he moved to the
University of Kent 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
University of Kent. ''Outsider Art'' was the first book in English to be published on the subject of
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and introduced the term "
outsider art". In 1979 he and Victor Musgrave curated ''Outsiders'' at the
Hayward Gallery, 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'' 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
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1940 births
2019 deaths
Academics of the University of Kent
Alumni of the University of Cambridge
Art writers
British art historians