COLLECTION NAME:
Artists' Book Collection
Record
Title:
Pistol, Pistil: Botanical Ballistics
Creator:
Kalmbach, Ann E.
Creator:
Kellner, Tana
Description:
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.
Subject:
Environmentalism
Subject:
Food in art
Subject:
Illustration of books
Subject:
Language and languages in art
Subject:
Nature in art
Subject:
Pesticides
Subject:
Plants in art
Subject:
Plays on words
Subject:
War
Subject:
Weapons
Subject:
Women artists
Publisher:
University of Southern Maine
Date:
1997
Language:
English
Type:
Still Image
Extent:
1 folded sheet (26 unnumbered pages) : chiefly color illustrations ; 23 cm
Format/Medium:
Artists' books
Format/Medium:
Abaca fiber papers
Format/Medium:
Accordion fold books
Format/Medium:
Chicago screw binding
Format/Medium:
Found objects
Format/Medium:
Glassine
Format/Medium:
Handmade paper
Format/Medium:
Hardcover books
Format/Medium:
Mushrooms (fungi)
Format/Medium:
Pop-up books
Format/Medium:
Screen prints
Format/Medium:
Snakeskin
Format/Medium:
Squash (gourd)
Format/Medium:
Wood
Source:
Pistol, Pistil: Botanical Ballistics, 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:
b12317160
Identifier:
i11618103
SCAD Location:
Jen Library (Savannah)
SCAD Location:
SCAD Library (Atlanta)
