The 1960s collages that sent two young writers to prison remind us that in today's Britain, no real dissident art is possibleIn May 1962 a pair of would-be writers were each sentenced to six months in prison for defacing library books. It was a truly surreal crime. Kenneth Halliwell and Joe Orton had met and fallen in love as students at Rada. They did not make it as actors, but instead wrote novels that did not get …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:18AM on October 14, 2011