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Scope and Contents This exhibition was subtitled, "Five Contemporary Outsiders." The colored illustrations of each of the five artists featured in this exhibition are printed on heavy stock paper. The commentaries in French and English of their work are printed on lighter stock paper. The print included in this catalogue was an add-on to the purchase. This exhibition, which was seen by the Sackners is well summarized by Lauren Danchin's essay in the catalogue. He writes, "Nothing at first could bring together the cave painting style of Christine Sefolosha, the exaggerated fetishes of Joseph Kurhakec and the pseudo tibetan manuscripts or the ritual shields of Lidia Syroka. Nor the little vegetable people living in Jephan de Villiers' legendary land, the Arbony, or Marc Pessin's fictitious archeology with its proliferous writing. Nothing except a common affinity with what could be named the archaic perception of the world, a common feeling for the materials, the techniques and the sensitivity of...