Marking Time Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration

Name: Marking Time
Author: Nicole R. Fleetwood

Auteur: Nicole R. Fleetwood

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: Nicole R. Fleetwood

Engels
Hardcover
9780674919228
28 april 2020
352 pagina's

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Nicole Fleetwood enters American prisons to explore the creativity flourishing there. Though isolated and degraded, incarcerated artists produce bold works that testify to the economic and racial injustice of American punishment. These pieces, many published here for the first time, offer a new vision of freedom for the twenty-first century.

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award
A Smithsonian Book of the Year
A New York Review of Books “Best of 2020” Selection
A New York Times Best Art Book of the Year
An Art Newspaper Book of the Year

A powerful document of the inner lives and creative visions of men and women rendered invisible by America’s prison system.

More than two million people 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 deprivation and abuse 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 transform 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.

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Hardcover
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 28 april 2020
Aantal pagina's: 352
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Hoofdauteur: Nicole R. Fleetwood
Hoofduitgeverij: Harvard University Press

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Product breedte: 203 mm
Product lengte: 203 mm
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Verpakking breedte: 203 mm
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Verpakking lengte: 203 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 912 g

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