Detail View: Artists' Book Collection: Pistol, Pistil: Botanical Ballistics
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Title:
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Pistol, Pistil: Botanical Ballistics
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Creator:
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Kalmbach, Ann E.
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Creator:
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Kellner, Tana
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Description:
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This accordion fold book examines the use of ordinary words in both botanical and military context. These definitions are juxtaposed with stories and statistics relating to farming and violence. Single sheet accordion fold book (26 panels) attached front and back with screw and post binding with snakeskin hinges to wooden covers. Text and color illustrations on one side and illustrated endpapers and front cover. Five illustrated additions are handbound into folds of the accordion. Two are cards, one is a card with a pop-up, one is a glassine envelope containing a slice of dried squash, and one is made from handmade, illustrated, waxed paper with slices of mushroom incorporated into the paper. Silkscreen printed on Mohawk Superfine, UV Ultra, and handmade abaca fiber paper. Printed on one side of the sheet (i.e., 11 connected sheets), folded accordion-style and attached to wood covers. Covers attached with animal skin and bullet casings. Includes mixed media inserts (i.e., dried squash slice and mushrooms mounted or inserted in glassine pockets.
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Subject:
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Environmentalism
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Subject:
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Food in art
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Subject:
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Illustration of books
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Subject:
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Language and languages in art
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Subject:
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Nature in art
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Subject:
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Pesticides
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Subject:
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Plants in art
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Subject:
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Plays on words
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Subject:
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War
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Subject:
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Weapons
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Subject:
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Women artists
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Publisher:
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University of Southern Maine
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Date:
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1997
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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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1 folded sheet (26 unnumbered pages) : chiefly color illustrations ; 23 cm
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Format/Medium:
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Artists' books
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Format/Medium:
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Abaca fiber papers
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Format/Medium:
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Accordion fold books
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Format/Medium:
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Chicago screw binding
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Format/Medium:
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Found objects
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Format/Medium:
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Glassine
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Format/Medium:
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Handmade paper
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Format/Medium:
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Hardcover books
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Format/Medium:
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Mushrooms (fungi)
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Format/Medium:
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Pop-up books
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Screen prints
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Format/Medium:
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Snakeskin
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Format/Medium:
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Squash (gourd)
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Format/Medium:
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Wood
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Source:
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Pistol, Pistil: Botanical Ballistics, 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=b1231716
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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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b12317160
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Identifier:
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i11618103
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SCAD Location:
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Jen Library (Savannah)
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SCAD Location:
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SCAD Library (Atlanta)
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