{"product_id":"the-artists-prison-9780998861616","title":"The Artists' Prison","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe 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 prisons 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 books critical edge is sharpest. In structural terms  The Artists Prison represents a unique visual and literary intersection  in which Woods drawings open spaces of potential meaning in Grants text  and the text  in turn  acts as a framework in which the images can resonate and intensify in significance.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45792604225589,"sku":"ByrdShop_0998861618","price":240.92,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780998861616.jpg?v=1784755229","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-artists-prison-9780998861616","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}