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What's saved him from grimness is his status as an outsider, his flippant sense of humor, and his lovable grin.
But think of Darger in the context either of children's books and cartoons (anything from Tom & Jerry to the terrifyingly brutal but also extremely popular German children's book Strumpelpeter ) or of contemporary art (Maggie Robbins' 1989 "Barbie Fetish," for instance--a naked Barbie doll stuck all over with little nails), and it's MacGregor who begins to look like the outsider.
But while the notion of outsider art has proved an effective marketing concept, it is often an unfortunate interpretive one--outsider artists tend to attract a particularly crude and irritating kind of psycho-biographical analysis.
A warm profile of playwright Wendy Wasserstein, whose new Broadway play opens this month, depicts her as an establishment figure who still thinks of herself as an outsider.
But Walcott also wants an outsider's view on this exalted material, and he finds it in the 19 th -century English peasant-poet John Clare, whom he makes into a stand-in for himself.