Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration

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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. Contents List of Illustrations Preface A Note on Method Introduction 1 Carceral Aesthetics: Penal Space, Time,and Matter 2 State Goods: Clandestine Practices and Prison Art Collectives 3 Captured by the Frame: Photographic Studies of Prisoners 4 Interior Subjects: Portraits by Incarcerated Artists 5 Fraught Imaginaries: Collaborative Art in Prison 6 Resisting Isolation: Art in Solitary Confinement 7 Posing in Prison: Family Photographs,Practices of Belonging, and Carceral Landscapes Conclusion Notes Acknowledgments Illustration Credits Index