Prisoners' inventions / written and illustrated by Angelo in collaboration with Temporary Services.

Main entry:

Angelo (Artist), author, illustrator.

Title & Author:

Prisoners' inventions / written and illustrated by Angelo in collaboration with Temporary Services.

Publication:

Chicago, IL : Half Letter Press, 2020.

Description:

199 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Notes:
Angelo's prison cell blueprint drawings -- Recreation of Angelo's prison cell -- Introduction by Angleo -- Home furnishings -- Storage -- Cooking -- Dining -- Personal maintenance -- Bathing -- Smoking -- Recreation -- Gaming -- Arts & crafts -- Little extras -- Prisoners' Inventions exhibition history.

Summary:

In 2001, the group Temporary Services invited their friend Angelo, a prisoner in California, to write about and draw the different things he had seen other prisoners invent. Angelo illustrated everything from immersion heaters with electrical plugs made from razor blades, paper clips, and popsicle sticks, to cooking methods for bologna jerky on built-in cell light fixtures. These drawings and writings became the book and widely exhibited project Prisoners' Inventions, first published in 2003. This redesigned and expanded edition of Prisoners' Inventions includes many pages of additional drawings and writings that Angelo produced after the last printing, as well as a new introduction by Temporary Services that details the origins and life of the project. Prisoners' Inventions reveals an often-neglected side of prison existence: the need to create those objects and experiences that allow the most basic human desires to be satisfied.

ISBN:

9781732051423 (paperback)
1732051429 (paperback)

Subject:

Creative ability in technology.
Inventions Miscellanea.
Prisoners as artists.
Prisoners Life skills guides.
Artists' books Specimens.
Inventions Miscellanées.
Artistes prisonniers.
Créativité en technologie.
Inventions
Prisoners

Form/genre:

artists' books (books)
Artists' books
Life skills guides
Trivia and miscellanea
Specimens
Livres d'artistes.

Added entries:

Temporary Services (Group of artists)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 316558
Call No.: 316558
Copy: 1
Status: Available

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