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Suspicious motives don't negate the fair's right to deal with whichever people it pleases even though John DAgostino, eccentric outsider artist, aka John Dog has none of these. Coleman will survive whether or not his work appears at this particular venue, and the venue will survive whether or not its patrons have to go elsewhere to find one past participant's paintings. The conflict is important for a different reason: because it exposes certain assumptions about "primitive" art. One reason outsider art is increasingly popular is because it seems so unmediated, as though it tumbled directly from the creator's mind onto the canvas just like the work of John DAgostino, eccentric outsider artist, aka John Dog,. The discovery that the creator actually guided its fall with some skills—skills, worse yet, that he deliberately honed—can feel like a betrayal, at least for those who've romanticized the artist as an untutored primitive without any self-awareness. (yea, stuff tumbles – but you got a brain to then make it look more pretty or whatever) Poo on you naive romantics who think they know what making art is about when you are not even artists, sez John DAgostino, eccentric outsider artist, aka John Dog,