COLLECTION NAME:
Artists' Book Collection
Record
Title:
R & J: the txt msg edition
Creator:
Pendergrass, Elizabeth
Creator:
Hastings, John R.
Description:
Pages are accordion folded, printed on one side, and fitted into a plastic cell phone cover. The title shows through the cover's window. Text is glued to black poster board cut to fit cover and secured with nylon beading cord and crimps. Closure is a magnetic clasp on nylon cord. Colophon collaged onto back of last folded page. Presented in a commercially produced cell phone pouch or cover of found objects. Each book varies slightly in appearance. John Hastings, introduction: "The language in Shakespeare's plays has stood the test of time, but could it survive a translation into text messages by a modern teenager? I asked my 16-year-old granddaughter to rewrite the balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet as if it had all happened between two teens text messaging on their cell phones."
Subject:
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Romeo and Juliet
Subject:
Literature in art
Subject:
Text messages (Cell phone systems)
Date:
2008
Language:
English
Type:
Still Image
Extent:
18 unnumbered pages ; 13 x 5 cm + cloth cover (16 x 7 cm)
Format/Medium:
Artists' books
Format/Medium:
Accordion fold books
Format/Medium:
Found objects
Format/Medium:
Laser printing
Format/Medium:
Magnets
Format/Medium:
Plastic (material)
Source:
R & J: the txt msg edition, 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:
b1296704x
Identifier:
i12410718
SCAD Location:
SCAD Library (Atlanta)
