Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award A Smithsonian Book
of the Year A New York Review of Books "Best of 2020" Selection A
New York Times Best Art Book of the Year An Art Newspaper Book of
the Year 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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