Research Catalog

Title

Marking time : art in the age of mass incarceration / Nicole R. Fleetwood.

Author

Fleetwood, Nicole R.

Publication

• Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2020.
• ©2020

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Details

Additional Authors

P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, host institution.

Description

xxvi, 323 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits; 22 cm

Summary

"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"--

Subject

• Prisoners as artists > United States
• Arts in prisons > United States
• Art, American > Political aspects
• Imprisonment > Social aspects > United States
• Arts in prisons
• Imprisonment > Social aspects
• Art, American
• Prisoners as artists
• Prisoners > Recreation
• United States

Note

• "Through Apr 4, 2021, MoMA P.S.1. -- This major exhibition explores the work of artists within US prisons and the centrality of incarceration to contemporary art and culture. Featuring art made by people in prisons and work by nonincarcerated artists concerned with state repression, erasure, and imprisonment, Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration highlights more than 35 artists, including American Artist, Tameca Cole, Russell Craig, James 'Yaya' Hough, Jesse Krimes, Mark Loughney, Gilberto Rivera, and Sable Elyse Smith. The exhibition has been updated to reflect the growing COVID-19 crisis in US prisons, featuring new works by exhibition artists made in response to this ongoing emergency."--Page S. 1 Contemporary Art Center website (viewed on October 15, 2020)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-296) and index.

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 -- Resisting isolation: art in solitary confinement -- Posing in prison: family photographs, practices of belonging, and carceral landscapes.

Call Number

Sc D 21-467

ISBN

• 9780674919228
• 067491922X

LCCN

2019043563

OCLC

1119779277

Author

Fleetwood, Nicole R., author.

Title

Marking time : art in the age of mass incarceration / Nicole R. Fleetwood.

Publisher

Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2020.

Copyright Date

©2020

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Creator/Contributor Characteristics

Gender group: Women

Nationality/regional group: Americans

Occupational/field of activity group: University and college faculty members

Local Note

Schomburg copy with dust jacket.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-296) and index.

Biography

Nicole R. Fleetwood is Professor of American Studies and Art History at Rutgers University. Her work on art and mass incarceration has been featured at the Aperture Foundation and the Zimmerli Museum of Art and her exhibitions have been praised by The Nation, the New York Times, The New Yorker, and the Village Voice. She is the author of On Racial Icons and the prizewinning Troubling Vision.

Local Note

AUTH: RUTGERS UNIVERSITY. EXAMINES THE ROLE OF ART IN THE LIVES OF U.S. PRISONERS. COLOR ILLUSTRATED

Local Subject

Black author.

Added Author

P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, host institution.

Research Call Number

Sc D 21-467