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Concept

Solitary confinement

Images

  • An anchoress or nun of an enclosed order locked in her cell; representing the monastic cell as the heaven of the loving soul. Coloured engraving, 16--.
  • A man with AIDS with his head in his hands; advertising the AIDS Concern Hotline, Hong Kong. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • A man with AIDS with his head in his hands representing an advertisement for the AIDS Concern Hotline, Hong Kong. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • Woking Convict Invalid Prison: a woman prisoner in solitary confinement. Process print after P. Renouard, 1889.
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Catalogue

    • Books
    • Online

    Remarks on the use and abuse of seclusion / by J.A. Campbell.

    Campbell, J. A. | Date: [1886]
    • Books

    Way down in the hole : race, intimacy, and the reproduction of racial ideologies in solitary confinement / Angela J. Hattery and Earl Smith.

    Hattery, Angela | Date: [2023]
    • Pictures
    • Online

    An anchoress or nun of an enclosed order locked in her cell; representing the monastic cell as the heaven of the loving soul. Coloured engraving, 16--.

    | Date: 1600-1699 | Reference: 32373i
    • Pictures
    • Online

    A man with AIDS with his head in his hands; advertising the AIDS Concern Hotline, Hong Kong. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.

    | Date: [1995?] | Reference: 678410i
    • Videos

    Total isolation.

    | Date: 2008
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