COLLECTION NAME:
Artists' Book Collection
Record
Title:
Civil Defense
Creator:
Zimmermann, Philip
Description:
Offset printed three hole pamphlet bound with string and with some accordion foldout pages. Completed as part of an artist-in-residency program of the Visual Studies Workshop. Artist's statement: "The book was about the paranoia of an advancing radioactive cloud approaching an inhabited area (the Hudson Valley where I lived) and the uselessness of trying to escape the radioactivity. I used a mechanical device of disintegrating and steadily enlarging halftone dots and patterns to show the increasing radioactivity. By the end the page images have become almost atomistic and unreadable because the scale of the dot components making up the image is so large . Tiny little boy scout icons futilely signal SOS.“
Subject:
Art and nuclear warfare
Subject:
Photography
Publisher:
Spaceheater Editions
Date:
1984
Language:
English
Type:
Still Image
Extent:
26 unnumbered pages (2 folded) : chiefly color illustrations ; 13 x 21 cm
Format/Medium:
Artists' books
Format/Medium:
Accordion fold books
Format/Medium:
Offset lithography
Format/Medium:
Photographs
Format/Medium:
Stab stitching
Source:
Civil Defense, in Artists' Books Collection at SCAD Library, Atlanta, 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:
b12359506
Identifier:
i11667588
SCAD Location:
SCAD Library (Atlanta)
