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| | Prison Art - The Outsider Pages |
 | | Prison artists are textbook outsiders, creating apart from the art world, with little or no formal training, under unsupportive conditions. |
 | | Noble Indians, sinewy basketball players, jungle animals, rugged princess warriors, pretty landscapes, celebrity portraits, fantasy beefcake: Most prisoners who try their hand at art make the same kind of uninspired, tediously rendered stuff that is liable to result from the artistic efforts of any more or less random population with time on its hands. |
 | | But just as clearly creative outsiders have their work roped in with labored imitations of eccentricity -- or the merely quaint -- the efforts of the notorious and the bored are not all there is to prison art. |
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