Description
The Artists' Prison looks askance at the workings of personality and privilege, sexuality, authority, and artifice in the art world. Imagined through the heavily redacted testimony of the prison's warden, written by Alexandra Grant, and powerfully allusive images by Eve Wood, the prison is a brutal, Kafkaesque landscape where creativity can be a criminal offence and sentences range from the allegorical to the downright absurd. In The Artists' Prison, the act of creating becomes a strangely erotic condemnation, as well as a means of punishment and transformation. It is in these very transformations--sometimes dubious, sometimes oddly sentimental--that the book's critical edge is sharpest. In structural terms, The Artists' Prison represents a unique visual and literary intersection, in which Wood's drawings open spaces of potential meaning in Grant's text, and the text, in turn, acts as a framework in which the images can resonate and intensify in significance.
Author: Alexandra Grant
Publisher: X Artists' Books
Published: 04/01/2017
Pages: 158
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.30h x 6.40w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9780998861616
ISBN10: 0998861618
BISAC Categories:
- Art | Individual Artists | Artists' Books
- Art | Women Artists