Glance at Culture - Ella Nowicki on Incarceration, Art and Defining Justice in Terms of Accountability
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Please visit the following links to learn more:
Shahn\\u2019s sketches for Rikers Island;
Correctional History discussion of Shahn;
Lucienne Bloch, Cycle of a Woman\\u2019s Life: Childhood:
Shahn\\u2019s photo of an incarcerated painter at Blackwell\\u2019s Island;
Larry Cook, The Visiting Room\\xa0and Urban Landscapes;
Groundswell murals at Rikers;
Handwritten survey responses in the Shahn Papers at the Archives of American Art.
SHOW NOTES:
2:00 Ben Shahn\\u2019s and Lou Block\\u2019s proposed Rikers Island Penitentiary murals for the New Deal\\xa0
4:45 West wall\\u2019s mural representing prison reform
6:05 East wall\\u2019s mural of prisons in need of reform
8:20 New York\\u2019s Municipal Art Commission rejects murals as psychologically unfit for prisoners and as anti-social propaganda\\xa0
9:00 1935 survey of Blackwell Island prisoners about murals
11:35 one incarcerated man likened Shahn\\u2019s murals to Diego Rivera\\u2019s Rockefeller Center mural
12:40 concerns about making incarcerated life a spectacle
14:10 responses by Ben Shahn and Lou Block to survey
17:20 utility of survey for art historians
19:10 survey archive
21:30 Ben Shahn\\u2019s New Deal Murals: Jewish Identity in the American Scene by Diana Linden
22:10 Ben Shahn\\u2019s New York by Harvard Art Musuems
22:50 Art for the Millions: Essays from the 1930s by artists and administrators of the WPA Project by Francis O\\u2019Connor includes material from Lucienne Bloch
23:10 Bloch\\u2019s \\u201cCycle of a Woman\\u2019s Life\\u201d accepted for WPA Project in 1935
23:50 Bloch\\u2019s primary sources quote from letters by incarcerated females\\xa0
29:30 Harold Lehman\\u2019s Man\\u2019s Daily Bread erected at Rikers and later removed
35:20 Faith Ringgold\\u2019s 1971 For the Women\\u2019s House
37:00 Reception to Ringgold\\u2019s For the Women\\u2019s House by male incarcerated population\\xa0
38:45 2012 Prison Landscapes by Alyse Emdur
42:10 Antoine Ealy\\u2019s opinion of prison landscapes
43:20 utility of murals in correctional institutions
44:15 Nicole Fleetwood\\u2019s book and exhibition Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration
45:00 Shahn\\u2019s photograph of incarcerated man painting portrait at Blackwell\\u2019s Island\\xa0
47:30 Utility of art as a direct and didactic tool\\xa0
51:00 how a focus on art in correction facilities aids in facilitating justice\\xa0
56:00 Marking Time includes incarcerated and non-incarcerated artists
56:20 Artist Larry Cook
\\xa057:30 Groundswell NYC
58:20 How Nowocki defines justice\\xa0
59:20 Mariame Kaba\\u2019s view of justice in terms of accountability as com
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