Word: pasticheã
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This nonsensical pastiche??especially in its frenzied but 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...
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