Artists\u2019 books often involve creative\u00a0collaboration.<\/p>\n
In \u201cBoundaries,\u201d poet Richard Blanco and landscape photographer Jacob Hessler collaborate to explore how societal boundaries, such as those that shape perspectives on race, culture, and gender, influence people\u2019s sense of\u00a0community.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Another work on view, \u201cPictures from the Outside,\u201d is a collaboration between 13 incarcerated men and artist Chantal Zakari, who photographed places outside prison walls at the men\u2019s direction. Zakari\u2019s photographs are presented with the incarcerated men\u2019s annotations on the importance of the location, whether it be a school or a bodega, on their lives and\u00a0memories.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Business is Suffering,\u201d a work on view by book artist Maureen Cummins, provides a unique perspective on the inhumane business of American\u00a0slavery.<\/p>\n
The book presents transcriptions of letters by Americans complaining of the hassles and hardships related to the commerce of chattel slavery. The printed transcriptions are superimposed over the handwritten letters, which belong to the American Antiquarian Society. In the display, the book is opened to a letter dated Feb. 24, 1846, in which an enslaver laments the difficulty on selling Lucy, an enslaved woman, due to the woman\u2019s \u201clow-spirited\u00a0situation.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Illustrations of enslaved people lying side by side on slave ships accompany the depictions of the letters. As the letters move forward in time chronologically, fewer and fewer enslaved people are pictured in the illustrations, reflecting the increasing difficulty faced by those engaged in the slave trade over time, Landis\u00a0noted.<\/p>\n
The book is presented alongside documents from the Yale Library\u2019s collections concerning the sale and transportation of human beings from Northern ports to Southern\u00a0states.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A meditation on corsets considers the crossroads of fashion and physical\u00a0pain.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cUpholstered Cage,\u201d by book artist Tamar Stone, examines the tension between late-19th-century fashion and the painful experience of wearing a\u00a0corset.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cStone take quotations from 19th-century advertising expounding on the supposed benefits of wearing corsets, such as how they purportedly protected the fetus during pregnancy, and couples them with images of women wearing corsets and their testimony about the garment\u2019s painful effects,\u201d Landis\u00a0said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Stone\u2019s book is presented with an advertisement for corsets from an August 1872 issue of Harper\u2019s Bazaar from the Beinecke Library\u2019s\u00a0collections.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Artists\u2019 books often involve creative\u00a0collaboration. In \u201cBoundaries,\u201d poet Richard Blanco and landscape photographer Jacob Hessler collaborate to explore…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":507404,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3938],"tags":[3444,77,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-507403","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115390825339464317","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=507403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/507404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}