This is the third book I chose, called,Through Our Own Eyes,by Guy Brett

From the very first pages of this book ,Outsider Art or Naive art is introduced and discussed as an important expressive art movement."My position is between, and I wanted to take as a theme the relationship between people, moments of historical crisis,and the visual means of expression.p.6
The significance of this art movement lay in the ability for people  to convey such pure and raw emotion when one is not professionally trained and feels more free  to express."For they cross the crude barriers defining and controlling our knowledge of the historical events of our own time as they affect the mass people"p.7 This book seems to be more about the art impulsiveness,creativity, and approaches, the importance of the means of expression of a certain group of people."...here art  becomes a means of communication in which facts are not separated from feelings,in which human beings present themselves clearly as both observers of,and participants in,events.On another level art becomes a means of therapy in order to survive the trauma of events....."p 8.Bingo!...this is what we are discussing in the course now and this is the guts of what my own work;my research is really about.These artists in this book have  in common is their untrained ways to represent their feelings.These inages may seem crude or possibly precious.