Cellblock Visions: Prison Art in America

by Phyllis Kornfeld

Almost everyone in prison is either making art or buying it," notes Phyllis Kornfeld as she uncovers the alternative artworld flourishing today in American prisons. Her book, Cellblock Visions , not only presents some of the most inventive and gripping examples of outsider art, but also offers an unprecedented account of prison art in particular as a subject worthy of serious consideration. Having worked for many years as an art facilitator in jails...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691029768
• ISBN13: 9780691029764
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 9.5" x 11.0"