Recorded conversation about the late Roger Cardinal

On Tuesday 27 October gallerist Jennifer Gilbert was in conversation with Agnès Cardinal, wife of the late Roger Cardinal. We discussed Roger’s life, those he met along the way, what he really thought of the term outsider art and what he really did in all those little notebooks!

On Tuesday 27 October gallerist Jennifer Gilbert was in conversation with Agnès Cardinal, wife of the late Roger Cardinal. We discussed his life, those he met along the way, what he really thought of the term outsider art and what he really did in all those little notebooks! His revolutionary book Outsider Art, published in 1972 was the very first work in English on the subject and gave the world the name 'Outsider Art,' originally as an English equivalent to Dubuffet's art brut definition. In 1979 he co-curated "Outsiders" at London's Hayward Gallery with Victor Musgrave, presenting the great masters of outsider art, an exhibition that had a profound and lasting impact. He wrote books, on a range of subjects – Expressionism (1984), The Landscape Vision of Paul Nash (1989) and The Cultures of Collecting (1994). He was a talented linguist and his first and greatest love was for German Romanticism. His interest in the art of the marginalised had grown from another in French surrealism. He also taught as a Professor at the University of Kent at Canterbury for 50 years.

Roger Cardinal’s revolutionary book Outsider Art, published in 1972 was the very first work in English on the subject and gave the world the name 'Outsider Art,' originally as an English equivalent to Dubuffet's art brut definition. In 1979 he co-curated "Outsiders" at London's Hayward Gallery with Victor Musgrave, presenting the great masters of outsider art, an exhibition that had a profound and lasting impact.

He wrote books, on a range of subjects – Expressionism (1984), The Landscape Vision of Paul Nash (1989) and The Cultures of Collecting (1994). He was a talented linguist and his first and greatest love was for German Romanticism. His interest in the art of the marginalised had grown from another in French surrealism. He also taught as a Professor at the University of Kent at Canterbury for 50 years.

BELOW: A few photographs below that are discussed in the video above

Transcript available HERE in PDF format and HERE in word format