COLLECTION NAME:
Artists' Book Collection
Record
Title:
Everyday Readers
Creator:
Marsh, Mary V.
Description:
Hand-printed block prints are applied to library checkout cards which are affixed to mulberry paper. The pages are bound together with brads in a vintage cover with a manila folder slip case. Orange date due card in back pocket, numbered and initialed by author. Artist's statement: "Drawings of people reading made during my daily commute are translated into block prints and handprinted onto discarded library cards. The commuters engaged in their own private world intersect with book titles and signatures of past readers. The office materials used to construct each book imply tasks workers are bound for. The nostalgia of the old cards suggests a history of the changing methods of reading."
Subject:
Libraries
Subject:
Local transit
Subject:
Portraits
Subject:
Reading
Subject:
Women artists
Publisher:
Quite Contrary Press
Date:
2009
Language:
English
Type:
Still Image
Extent:
16 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 14 cm + 1 orange date due card
Format/Medium:
Artists' books
Format/Medium:
Brads
Format/Medium:
Brass (alloy)
Format/Medium:
Due date cards
Format/Medium:
Folders (containers)
Format/Medium:
Linocuts
Format/Medium:
Mulberry paper
Format/Medium:
Slipcases
Source:
Everyday Readers, in Jen Library Archives and Special Collections, 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:
b12808659
Identifier:
i12091765
SCAD Location:
Jen Library (Savannah)
