**"Outsider Art: From the Margins to the Marketplace"** by David Maclagan explores the world of outsider art and its place in the mainstream art world. Key themes and topics in the book include:
- **Definition of Outsider Art**: The book addresses the definition of outsider art, which is generally understood as art created outside the mainstream by self-taught individuals, visionaries, spiritualists, eccentrics, recluses, psychiatric patients, and others on the margins of society 【1】【2】.
- **The Marketplace**: It examines what happens when outsider art enters the commercial art world 【3】.
- **History of Outsider Art**: Maclagan traces the origins of outsider art back to the Renaissance and the emergence of the modern concept of the artist 【3】.
- **Critical Perspectives**: The book engages with critical discussions and debates surrounding outsider art, including the concept of raw, untaught creativity 【4】【5】.
- **Creative Drives**: Maclagan explores assumptions about creative drives and the expression of inner worlds within the context of outsider art 【6】.
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