On a computer, the reset button clears the computer's memory and causes it to reboot—to shut down and restart. Lynne Cooke, the curator of Outliers and American Vanguard Art, has developed a different button, one that merges history (and memory), offering a more seamless approach to thinking about outsider art. Head on, she challenges conventional definition and attacks “The relentless ‘term warfare’ between imbricated [overlapping] concepts such as folk, naïve, and outsider . . . [and a] preoccupation with definition.”