COLLECTION NAME:
Artists' Book Collection
Record
Title:
Im-'ped-e-ment
Creator:
Gaulke, Cheri
Description:
Single signature in an illustrated paper wrapper with fold-out pop-up structure as back cover holding a seed packet. Miniature metal shoe inside seed packet. Includes writings by Hans Christian Andersen, Cheri Gaulke, Sue Maberry, Terry Wolverton, and Mrs. Hsui-chen. Title is a play on words of the English word "impediment" and "ped" from the Latin word pes which means foot. Edition of 200. Colophon: "[D]esigned and printed by Cheri Gaulke during an artist's residency at Women's Studio Workshop, Rosendale, New York ... [P]rinted silkscreen and letterpress on Curtis Tuscan Terra, Rives BFK, UV Ultra, handmade paper with toenails and hair, and a seed packet. Pop-up design by Kim Knox of Nexus Press ... Footbinding stories from 'Chinese Footbinding: The History of a Curious Erotic Custom' by Howard S. Levy. Most other quotes from 'The Sex Life of the Foot and Shoe' by William A. Rossi ... Dedicated to my grandmother Marion Preuss."
Subject:
Feminism in art
Subject:
Foot in art
Subject:
Footbinding
Subject:
Manners and customs
Subject:
Nature in art
Subject:
Pain
Subject:
Quotations in art
Subject:
Shoes
Subject:
Women
Subject:
Women artists
Publisher:
Women's Studio Workshop
Date:
1991
Language:
English
Type:
Still Image
Extent:
16 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Format/Medium:
Artists' books
Format/Medium:
Hair (animal components)
Format/Medium:
Handmade paper
Format/Medium:
Letterpress printing
Format/Medium:
Nails (Anatomy)
Format/Medium:
Pamphlets
Format/Medium:
Pop-up books
Format/Medium:
Screen prints
Format/Medium:
Seeds (plant components)
Source:
Im-'ped-e-ment, in Jen Library Archives and Special Collections, Savannah College of Art and Design.
Rights:
Copyright is retained by the authors or artists of items in this collection, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Identifier:
b1232811x
Identifier:
i12455088
SCAD Location:
Jen Library (Savannah)
SCAD Location:
SCAD Library (Atlanta)
