Word: outsidership
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Morton Keller, co-author of a book on the history of Harvard, said that over the past 70 years, “the person seems to be more important than the degree of their ‘insidership’ or ‘outsidership...
...what misunderstandings it has produced. Chief among these is the idea of Lautrec as a cross between isolated genius and man of the people, whose deformity (and the sense of outsidership it fostered) resonated with his marginal subjects -- the whores, dancers, cabaret singers, the proletariat in search of cheap lurid pleasure, in sum the Montmartre demimonde -- to produce a truly "compassionate" art. This is largely a sentimental fiction, as Thomson argues in detail in the show's excellent catalog...
...well-off storekeeper-he was also a Jew. In this sense he was twice a stranger in France, and his clan loyalty, his commitment to the tiny republic of the family, his extreme probity and political radicalism were connected, one may surmise, to his sense of outsidership. More than anything else, he loved painting...
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