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Inside art : crime, punishment and creative energies
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ISBN: 1281124540 9786611124540 1906534233 9781906534233 1872870899 9781872870892 9781281124548 6611124543 Year: 2002 Publisher: Winchester : Waterside Press,

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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.


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America is the prison
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ISBN: 1469604043 0807898325 9780807898321 9781469604046 9780807833872 0807833878 9780807871171 0807871176 Year: 2010 Publisher: Chapel Hill, N.C. University of North Carolina Press

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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


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Is William Martinez not our brother? : twenty years of the Prison Creative Arts Project
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Year: 2010 Publisher: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press,

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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.


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Religion and prison art in Ming China (1368-1644) : creative environment, creative subjects
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ISBN: 9004432299 9789004432291 9789004432604 9004432604 Year: 2020 Publisher: Leiden, The Netherlands ; Boston : Brill,

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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.


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Holloway Prison
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ISBN: 1282766368 9786612766367 1906534853 9781906534851 9781282766365 9781904380566 1904380565 6612766360 Year: 2010 Publisher: Hampshire, UK Portland, Or. Waterside Press International Specialised Book Services [distributor]

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Razor wire women : prisoners, activists, scholars, and artists
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ISBN: 1438435339 1441696784 9781441696786 9781438435336 9781438435312 1438435312 9781438435329 1438435320 Year: 2011 Publisher: Albany : State University of New York Press,

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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.


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Marking time : art in the age of mass incarceration
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ISBN: 0674250907 0674250923 Year: 2020 Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press,

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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."


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New Public Scholarship : Is William Martinez Not Our Brother? : Twenty Years of the Prison Creative Arts Project
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ISBN: 128288297X 9786612882975 0472027441 0472051091 Year: 2010 Publisher: Ann Arbor, MI, USA Ann Arbor, MI, USA University of Michigan Press University of Michigan Press

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