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  title info:
    title: Marking time
    sub title: art in the age of mass incarceration
  name:
    name part: Fleetwood, Nicole R.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center
    role:
      role term: host institution.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mau
    date issued: 2020
    copyright date: 2020
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xxvi, 323 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 21 cm.
  abstract: More than two million men and women are currently behind bars in the United States. Incarceration not only separates the imprisoned from their families and communities, it also exposes them to shocking levels of violence and sexual assault and subjects them to the arbitrary cruelties of the criminal justice system. Yet, as Nicole Fleetwood reveals, America's prisons are filled with art. Despite the isolation and degradation they experience, the incarcerated are driven to assert their humanity in the face of a system that dehumanizes them. Based on interviews with currently and formerly incarcerated artists, prison visits and the author's own family experiences with the penal system, Marking Time shows how the imprisoned turn ordinary objects into elaborate works of art. Working with meager supplies and in the harshest conditions, including solitary confinement, these artists find ways to resist the brutality and depravity that prisons engender. The impact of their art, Fleetwood observes, can be felt far beyond prison walls. Their bold works, many of which are being published for the first time in this volume, have opened new possibilities in American art. As the movement to reform the country's criminal justice system grows, art provides the imprisoned with a political voice. Their works testify to the economic and racial injustices that underpin American punishment and offer a new vision of freedom for the twenty-first century.
  table of contents: Carceral aesthetics: penal space, time, and matter -- State goods: clandestine practices and prison art collectives -- Captured by the frame: photographic studies of prisoners -- Interior subjects: portraits by incarcerated ̜̜artists -- Fraught imaginaries: collaborative art in prison -- Art in solitary confinement -- Posing in prison: family photographs, practices of belonging, and carceral landscapes.
  note: Nicole R. Fleetwood.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: Prisoners as artists
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Art, American
    topic: Political aspects
  subject:
    topic: Imprisonment
    topic: Social aspects
    geographic: United States
  classification: N8356.P75 F54 2020
  classification: 704/.0869270973
  identifier: 9780674919228
  identifier: 067491922X
  identifier: 2019043563
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 191023
    record change date: 20210728140701.0
    record identifier: in00004396573