COLLECTION NAME:
Artists' Book Collection
Record
Title:
Lyric Intervention No. 1
Creator:
Collard, Susan
Description:
Cover of reclaimed tongue-and-groove fir, with spine of old door spindles tied with linen thread. Informally referred to as "the cheeseburger book," because of its chunky, overstuffed nature. Handwritten text by the artist. Artist's statement: "I came to the world of artist books with a background in architecture and poetry. I had spent my twenties tacking back and forth uneasily between the two disciplines, and when I made my first books in 1991, it felt as though parallel paths had miraculously intersected. For me, making a book is not just a marriage of the visual and verbal: it's lyrical expression without fear of the blank page, an experiment in form conducted at an obligingly small scale. From the beginning, my artist books have always been collaged objects, a coming-together of disparate images and histories. I work from a trove of found materials--old books, salvaged lumber, cast-off hardware and the like. I'm interested in reworking familiar forms in unexpected materials, in seeing ordinary objects as sublime and surprising. To this end, the pages of my books aren't usually made of paper. They're more often wood, metal, and glass, materials which demand structural ingenuity and breathe life into a sculptural, kinetic form. I tend to think of the books as I was taught to think of buildings, as a shaped series of spaces, linked by movement and memory. They are less narrative than stageset, unfolding like the rooms of a cryptic, unfinished house."
Subject:
Anatomy
Subject:
Architecture
Subject:
Assemblage (Art)
Subject:
Found objects (Art)
Date:
2005
Language:
English
Type:
Still Image
Extent:
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations ; 11 x 9 x 8 cm
Format/Medium:
Artists' books
Format/Medium:
Found objects
Format/Medium:
Metal
Format/Medium:
Miniature books
Format/Medium:
Screws
Format/Medium:
Solder
Format/Medium:
Thread
Format/Medium:
Unique books
Format/Medium:
Wood
Source:
[Lyric Intervention No. 1], 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:
b12809159
Identifier:
i12092472
SCAD Location:
Jen Library (Savannah)
