Utne Independent Press Award Winner for Arts Coverage: Raw Vision

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Raw Vision editor John Maizels started publishing the UK-based magazine in 1989. 'It was the height of conceptual art, and [many art] magazines were essentially unreadable,' he says. 'Not only that, they didn't have any pictures in them. We tried to be completely different.'

'It's very important to have the art well presented so it can be looked at equally with any other art,' he says, 'because people can look down on it and say, oh, it's art by mad people or something like that. They don't realize that it's probably a truer art than most of the art you see around, because it comes direct from the soul; it's just pure expression done by people who aren't looking for a career, or for exhibitions, or to sell anything.'

Raw Vision has a circulation of about 8,000, with about 5,000 of those copies sold in the United States. 'Fairly wealthy collectors' and 'fairly impoverished artists' are the magazine's two main groups of subscribers, Maizels says.

'The amazing thing about all outsider art is that it's just so accessible,' he says. 'People can look at it and appreciate it and feel it without having read an art book or been to a museum or anything. Just like the artists, in a way.'

Subscriptions: $46/yr. (4 issues); 212/714-8381; www.rawvision.com.

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