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Cellblock Visions Prison Art in America

Phyllis Kornfeld With a foreword by Roger Cardinal i

Cellblock Visions not only presents some of the most inventive and gripping examples of outsider art, but also offers an unprece- _ - : 7

dented account of prison art in particular. Having worked for many years as an art facil- itator in jails and penitentaries, Phyllis Kornfeld is in a unique position to explain how art emerges in the most restrictive of environments and what gives inmate art its distinctive character.

From painting to toilet-paper sculpture, ....... the works of prisoners range from awkward attempts to amazing displays of virtuosity. Here Kornfeld presents the artists whose works offer freshness and surprise and tells the moving stories behind them. Filled with l>_ _ quotes from men and women prisoners and with Kornfeld's own anecdotes, Cellblock Visions shows how these artists, most of them having no previous training, produce and think about their art. Approximately 100 illustrations

Cloth: $35.00 ISBN 0-691-02976-8 Art by Arthur Keigne

What's Happened to

the Humanities? Edited by Alvin Kernan

With a foreword by William Bowen and Harold Shapiro

This volume of specially commis- sioned original essays presents the thoughts of some of the most distin- guished commentators within the American academy on the fundamental changes that have taken place in the humanities in the latter part of the twentieth century. The individual essays offer close observations into how the humanities have been affected by declining academic status, by demo- graphic shifts, by reductions in financial support, and by changing communica- tion technology. They also explore the effect of these forces on books, libraries, and the phenomenology of reading in the age of images. Sponsored by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

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George Grosz and the Communist Party Art and Radicalism in Crisis, 1918 to 1936

Barbara McCloskey George Grosz (1 893-1 959)

occupied the forefront of German " Expressionism, Dadaism, and New Objectivity in the years before Hitler's rise to power in 1933. Grosz also became the Communist Party's lead- ing and most notorious artist. Here, however, Barbara McCloskey shows that Grosz's art and activities were equally, if not more, controversial for the Communist Party in whose name Grosz carried out his work.

In the process, McCloskey pro- vides a vivid history of the often

\ tense and uncertain relationship between vanguard art and revolution- ary politics during the turbulent years of the Weimar Republic.

"This finely crafted and concisely \ written book is a major contribution

to the literature on George Grosz. It will provoke a lively scholarly debate."-Maria Makela More than 60 illustrations

Cloth:$39.50 ISBN 0-691-02725-0

?1996 The Estate of George Grosz

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