COLLECTION NAME:
Artists' Book Collection
Record
Title:
Common Threads: Volume XXXIX
Creator:
Hicks, Candace
Description:
Hand-embroidered canvas soft sculpture book, made to look like an old-fashioned composition book with dark pink speckled cover and black spine. One of a series of hand-embroidered canvas books, the text of which gives accounts of coincidences arising from reading or from certain mundane events. Books mentioned in vol. 39 are Bluebeard (Kurt Vonnegut), The Breakfast of Champions (Kurt Vonnegut), Sacre Bleu (Christopher Moore), and The Art Detective (Philip Mould). Also mentioned were the television program, Psych, artist Gary Rough, Pentimento, Sloe Gin fizzes, and author Walker Percy.
Subject:
Coincidence
Subject:
Women artists
Date:
2012
Language:
English
Type:
Still Image
Extent:
8 unnumbered pages ; 24 cm
Format/Medium:
Artists' books
Format/Medium:
Canvas (textile material)
Format/Medium:
Embroidery (visual works)
Format/Medium:
Thread
Format/Medium:
Unique books
Source:
Common Threads: Volume XXXIX, 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:
b13200124
Identifier:
i12601883
SCAD Location:
Jen Library (Savannah)
