Pandora's book / Angela Lorenz.
- Title
- Pandora's book / Angela Lorenz.
- Published by
- Bologna : [A. Lorenz], 1992.
- Supplementary content
- Author
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Status | Format | Access | Call number | Item location |
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Status Available by appointment at Schwarzman Building - Print Collection Room 308. | FormatText | AccessBy appointment only | Call numberSpencer Coll. Ital. 1992 10-154 | Item locationSchwarzman Building - Print Collection Room 308 |
Details
- Additional authors
- Description
- 1 box; 23 x 18 x 13 cm.
- Alternative title
- Pandora, I thought
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Artists' books – Italy – 20th century.
- Collages – Italy – 20th century.
- Call number
- Spencer Coll. Ital. 1992 10-154
- Note
- Produced in an edition of 15 copies.
- Title page information from colophon.
- A poem accompanied by imagery created with the techniques and tools of sewing.
- Poem printed and imagery created on 40 sheets of white cotton fabric (each 19 x 15 cm.) hand-trimmed by the artist with pinking shears and attached with buttons, hooks, straight pins, hand-sewing, etc., to both sides of 5 accordion-folded sheets of white paper (each 63 x 21 cm., folded to 21 x 16 cm.). First verse printed on additional cotton sheet affixed to inside of box lid; separate cotton colophon sheet.
- "The text is based on information from history and mythology concerning prototypes of women responsible for propagating evil in the world"--Artist's statement. Subjects include Eve, Lilith, Delilah, Salome, Theodora, Melusine, etc.
- "Silkscreened in Century Schoolhouse on cotton sheet at Edizioni grafiche Il Navile"--Colophon. Printed in red on white cotton.
- Binding (note)
- Issued unbound, in a handmade box designed to resemble a sewing basket, covered with white woven paper and with separate padded red satin-covered pincushion lid in which assorted pins, safety pins, needles, etc., are inserted.
- Author
- Lorenz, Angela.
- Title
- Pandora's book / Angela Lorenz.
- Imprint
- Bologna : [A. Lorenz], 1992.
- Local note
- Spencer Coll. copy is no. 11/15; signed in pencil by Angela Lorenz.
- Binding
- Issued unbound, in a handmade box designed to resemble a sewing basket, covered with white woven paper and with separate padded red satin-covered pincushion lid in which assorted pins, safety pins, needles, etc., are inserted.
- Connect to:
- Place of publication
- Italy Bologna.
- Added author
- Edizioni Grafiche Il Navile. Printer
- Research call number
- Spencer Coll. Ital. 1992 10-154