Detail View: Artists' Book Collection: Just 30 Words
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Title:
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Just 30 Words
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Creator:
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Silverberg, Robbin Ami
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Description:
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"Reading between the lines of an actual postcard sent to Hungary from Auschwitz by a deported Jew, 1944"--Colophon. Artist's statement: "Postcards have been found that were written by deported Hungarian Jews to their relatives from Auschwitz, dictated by SS officers. Rules for responding correspondence can be found on the front: "Answer only on a postcard, (maximum 30 words), in German via the Hungarian Jewish Association. 12 Sip Street, Budapest, VII." The starting point for "Just 30 words" was an attempt to do the impossible: to read between the lines of an actual postcard sent by a woman to her husband in 1944. "Just 30 Words" sets up several scenarios that are each limited by the same dictate attached to those very postcards--any communique must be maximum 30 words. This is part of a continued exploration of language cognition: what words can actually communicate and their limitations. Each time, reading between the lines offers more than what can actually be read."
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Subject:
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Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
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Subject:
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Postcards in art
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Subject:
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Women artists
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Publisher:
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Dobbin Books
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Date:
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2005
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Language:
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English
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Type:
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Still Image
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Extent:
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30 unnumbered pages : illustrations (some color) ; 33 cm
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Format/Medium:
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Artists' books
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Format/Medium:
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Collages
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Format/Medium:
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Hand coloring
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Format/Medium:
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Hemp paper
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Source:
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Just 30 Words, in Artists' Books Collection at SCAD Library, Atlanta, Savannah College of Art and Design.
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Relation:
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Catalog record: https://library.scad.edu/record=b1301122
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Rights:
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Copyright is retained by the authors or artists of items in this collection, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
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Identifier:
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b13011224
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Identifier:
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i12489980
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SCAD Location:
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SCAD Library (Atlanta)
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