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I do not provide citations for my opening comments, because I think there's no need to make the scholarly apparatus so obtrusive. Both statements though are thoroughly supported by the the rest of the document with proper citations. To go case by case, the claim that Van Genk is celebrated as one of the leading masters of outsider art is supported already within the introduction by the following evidence: that Van Genk has ranked as a master of outsider art by the leading magazine Raw Vision, that he's in many important museum collections of outsider art, that critics have praised his work in superlative terms, and that his work once set a record for the highest priced work sold as outsider art. As to whether he suffered from symptoms related to autism and paranoid schizophrenia, I do not propose a diagnosis, but these terms are commonly thrown around in the literature on Van Genk. That is copiously supported throughout the document, with proper citations which this reader could have consulted had he/she looked at the section titled "Trauma and Mental Illness." Therefore I am removing the call for citations, because they effectively cast aspersions on actually sound scholarship. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rgeilfuss (talk • contribs) 04:10, 17 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
