COLLECTION NAME:
Artists' Book Collection
Record
Title:
Pandemic Dreams
Creator:
Eckstein Gower, Mari
Description:
Accordion structure in red cloth-covered hard covers. Issued in a grey and gold clamshell box. Colophon in separate pamphlet with black paper wrapper and a panel of paste paper on the front cover. Colophon: "Pandemic Dreams is an edition of 15 artist books created from 2020 to 2021. Inkjet printed on Superfine Cover paper. Additional papers: Canson Mi-Teintes, Madeleine Durham paste paper, Japanese Kosuke paper with Kozo fiber. Paintings, text & design: Mari Eckstein Gower, Engineering and fabrication: Kat Gower." Colophon: "On the one side of the pages, I explore how we regard masks as both protection and containment by using origami forms to cover parts of the faces. The waves in my paintings contain not only monsters but also pleas for medical help in multiple languages. On the back side of the book, I've included a selection of quotes I collected while in lockdown."
Subject:
COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-
Subject:
Dreams
Subject:
Plague
Subject:
Women artists
Date:
2021
Language:
English
Type:
Still Image
Extent:
1 accordion book : color illustrations; 28 x 18 closed colophon booklet
Format/Medium:
Artists' books
Format/Medium:
Accordion fold books
Format/Medium:
Clamshell boxes
Format/Medium:
Clothbound books
Format/Medium:
Pop-up books
Source:
Pandemic Dreams, 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:
b1937978x
Identifier:
i14004884
SCAD Location:
Jen Library (Savannah)
