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In color and black-and-white reproductions, emotion, social commentary, and technical abilities combine to provide a powerful viewing experience. -- Kim Long Bloomsbury Review Miss Kornfeld catalogs an astonishing range of subject matter and mediums... Throughout, one cannot help but marvel at the ingenuity of men and women who forge out of boredom, confinement, monotony and a chronic lack of supplies vivid expressions of rebellion, love, demonic fantasies and visions so unfiltered they make the surrealists look downright mannered. -- Lee Adair Lawrence The Washington Times

In color and black-and-white reproductions, emotion, social commentary, and technical abilities combine to provide a powerful viewing experience. -- Kim Long, Bloomsbury Review Miss Kornfeld catalogs an astonishing range of subject matter and mediums... Throughout, one cannot help but marvel at the ingenuity of men and women who forge out of boredom, confinement, monotony and a chronic lack of supplies vivid expressions of rebellion, love, demonic fantasies and visions so unfiltered they make the surrealists look downright mannered. -- Lee Adair Lawrence, The Washington Times

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Phyllis Kornfeld has been a painter and a teacher for many years, working with special populations in nontraditional settings. In 1983, she began conducting visual arts activities with prison inmates and has since worked with men and women incarcerated in eighteen institutions, from county jail to death row. Kornfeld writes and lectures on prison art and curates exhibitions of the work. Roger Cardinal is Professor of Literary and Visual Studies at the University of Kent and the author of several books on outsider art.

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