Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration
Nicole R. Fleetwood
Harvard University Press
Despite the isolation and degradation they experience, the incarcerated are driven to assert their humanity in the face of a system that dehumanizes them. Their bold works, many of which are published for the first time in Fleetwood's book, open new possibilities in American art as testaments to the economic and racial injustices that underpin American punishment, offering new visions of freedom for the 21st century.