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Based on conversations with artists, including people in prison or who were once imprisoned. It charts the importance of creative activity as an instrument of personal change.
Prisoners as artists. --- Artists. --- Persons --- Artists --- Art in prisons
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In the 1970's, while politicians and activists outside prisons debated the proper response to crime, incarcerated people helped shape those debates though a broad range of remarkable political and literary writings. Lee Bernstein explores the forces that sparked a dramatic ""prison art renaissance,"" shedding light on how incarcerated people produced powerful works of writing, performance, and visual art. These included everything from George Jackson's revolutionary Soledad Brother to Miguel Pinero's acclaimed off-Broadway play and Hollywood film Short Eyes. An extraordinary
Prisoners as artists --- Arts, American --- Arts --- Arts and society --- Political aspects --- History
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Prisons are an invisible, but dominant, part of American society: the United States incarcerates more people than any other nation in the world. In Michigan, the number of prisoners rose from 3,000 in 1970 to more than 50,000 by 2008, a shift that Buzz Alexander witnessed firsthand when he came to teach at the University of Michigan. Is William Martinez Not Our Brother? describes the University of Michigan's Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP), a pioneering program founded in 1990 that provides university courses, a nonprofit organization, and a national network for incarcerated youth and adults in Michigan juvenile facilities and prisons. By giving incarcerated individuals an opportunity to participate in the arts, PCAP enables them to withstand and often overcome the conditions and culture of prison, the policies of an incarcerating state, and the consequences of mass incarceration.
Arts in prisons --- Prisoners as artists --- Community arts projects --- Prisoners --- Education --- Prison Creative Arts Project --- History.
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Approaching the prison as a creative environment and imprisoned officials as creative subjects in Ming China (1368-1644), Ying Zhang introduces important themes at the intersection of premodern Chinese religion, poetry, and visual and material culture. The Ming is known for its extraordinary cultural and economic accomplishments in the increasingly globalized early modern world. For scholars of Chinese religion and art, this era crystallizes the essential and enduring characteristics in these two spheres. Drawing on scholarship on Chinese philosophy, religion, aesthetics, poetry, music, and visual and material culture, Zhang illustrates how the prisoners understood their environment as creative and engaged it creatively. She then offers a literature survey on the characteristics of premodern Chinese religion and art that helps situate the questions of “creative environment” and “creative subject” within multiple fields of scholarship.
Prisoners as artists --- Arts in prisons --- Art and religion --- History. --- 1368-1912 --- China --- History
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Prisoners as artists --- Women prisoners --- Prisoners --- Artists --- Education --- Art in prisons --- Beauchamp, Hillary. --- HM Prison Holloway. --- Holloway Prison --- HM Prison Holloway (Islington, London, England) --- HMP Holloway
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Collection of essays and art by scholars, artists and activists both in and out of prison that reveal the many dimensions of women's incarcerated experiences.
Arts in prisons. --- Prisoners as artists. --- Prisoners as authors. --- Women --- Female offenders. --- Women prisoners. --- Female identity --- Feminine identity --- Identity (Psychology) --- Prisoners --- Authors --- Artists --- Delinquent women --- Offenders, Female --- Women criminals --- Women offenders --- Criminals --- Prisons --- Identity. --- Crime --- Art in prisons
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"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."
Imprisonment --- Prisoners as artists --- Art, American --- Art in prisons --- Social aspects --- Political aspects. --- Self-taught art. --- art and justice. --- art and social justice. --- contemporary art. --- documentary photography. --- incarceration. --- mass incarceration. --- outsider art. --- photography. --- prison art. --- prison culture. --- prison portraits. --- prison studies. --- prisoner art. --- race and ethnicity.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE --- Penology --- Arts in prisons --- Prisoners as artists --- Community arts projects --- Prisoners --- Education --- Prison Creative Arts Project --- History. --- Convicts --- Correctional institutions --- Imprisoned persons --- Incarcerated persons --- Prison inmates --- Inmates of institutions --- Art projects, Community --- Arts projects, Community --- Community art projects --- Community-based arts projects --- Neighborhood arts projects --- Neighborhood-based arts projects --- Projects, Community arts --- Arts --- Artists and community --- Artists --- Prisons --- Inmates --- PCAP --- Persons --- Art in prisons
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