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Lucero, Jorge Lucero, Jorge Weissman, Terri Griffis, Ryan Martin, Jeffrey T. Stabler, Albert 2018-09-04T20:27:15Z 2018-09-04T20:27:15Z 2018-04-20 2018-05 In 2013, the lobbying group Tamms Year Ten was successful in closing the Tamms Correctional Center, a prison in which men lived in near-total and near-constant isolation. The group’s founder, Laurie Jo Reynolds, is an artist who describes her lobbying work as “legislative art,” an homage to the governmental interventions of activist Brazilian playwright Augusto Boal. Working backward from legislative art to legislative aesthetics, I postulate the potentially fruitful concepts of judicial aesthetics and executive aesthetics, borrowing the familiar American separation of powers as laid out by James Madison. I attempt to understand Reynolds’ work in a larger historical, aesthetic, and political framework by trying to describe the aestheticization of politics in America through the various mutations of racial concepts in the legal system, as well as in education, visual art, and literature. To do this I borrow ideas from the Continental political theory canon to shed light on how punishment is understood culturally in America in this moment of mass incarceration. In the end, I hope the essay yields a set of terms that allows artists and activists to have more meaningful conversations and debates, and through this dialogue to positively affect protest and policy. Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2018-08-31 without embargo terms The student, Albert Stabler, accepted the attached license on 2018-04-17 at 23:34. The student, Albert Stabler, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2018-04-18 at 00:10. This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2018-04-20 at 15:07. DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #12331 on 2018-08-31 at 17:13:29 Made available in DSpace on 2018-09-04T20:27:15Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 4 STABLER-DISSERTATION-2018.pdf: 1357658 bytes, checksum: b9a244e3b2575ef13f8c09ba8605a987 (MD5) sovereignty.docx: 575621 bytes, checksum: 70a7663e2c2777a9e1a962a7624f303b (MD5) LICENSE.txt: 4211 bytes, checksum: 8d826442b1f1c387dd7ead4b7b48eb41 (MD5) PROQUEST_LICENSE.txt: 4557 bytes, checksum: 2f5be9a7c33adc32e4b04fb5634ff21c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-04-20 application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/2142/101010 en Copyright 2018 by Albert Stabler. All rights reserved. Incarceration Social practice art Legal theory Liberal political theory History of activism Legislative art: Laurie Jo Reynolds and the aesthetics of punishment text text Art & Design Art Education University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dissertation Ph.D.