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The Art of Crime - Diary of A Prison Art Tutor (Paperback)
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The Art of Crime - Diary of A Prison Art Tutor (Paperback)
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List price R276
Loot Price R226
Discovery Miles 2 260
You Save R50 (18%)
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As an Art Tutor working in Britain's jails, Steven Tafka's job was
to teach the supposedly unteachable. The longer he did the job, the
more it seemed like it was him that was serving a sentence. Writing
this darkly comic book gave him a release and helped him to
survive. From the initial job interview, 'The Art of Crime' charts
the journey of a rookie prison art tutor from idealism to the
depths of the prison underworld. Written in diary form it details
the tragi-comic, often absurd daily experiences of trying to help
prisoners to achieve a qualification against all the odds. Tafka
had to discover the art of teaching watercolours to violent
gangsters and introduce murderers to Monet. He finds himself doing
swimming pool designs for an armed robber and trying to keep order
in a classroom where one of the learners thinks he is Picasso Peppa
Pig. And all this is happening as he is having to count the latex
gloves in and out (so the prisoners can't smoke them) and watch out
for illicit hooch brewing behind the classroom radiators. This book
gives a rodents-and-all insight into the dysfunctionality of prison
life, the often-abject conditions, but more importantly the power
of art to transform lives. There is an undoubted fascination with
the art prisoners make, because it has something to tell us about
the human condition and this book reveals the characters behind it.
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