Detail View: Artists' Book Collection: Beauty In Use
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Title:
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Beauty In Use
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Creator:
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McPherson, Sandra
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Creator:
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Van Vliet, Claire
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Description:
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Poems inspired by Sandra McPherson's collection of African-American quilts, designed and illustrated by Claire Van Vliet with pages of interlocking papers to form two-sided quilt squares. In clam-shell case (23 x 25 cm.), covered with various cloths; printed paper spine label. Accompanied by poly bag with small pieces of paper left over from the construction of the book. Colophon: "The non-adhesive structure & design by Claire Van Vliet executed with Audrey Holden & Lulie Larus; boxes made by Judi Conant and Mary Richardson in Guildhall, Vermont; papers are Japanese Chiyogami, Fabriano MacGregor-Vinzani, Strathmore, Janus, Barcham Green and Twinrocker."
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Subject:
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Artistic collaboration
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Subject:
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Color in art
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Subject:
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Paper work
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Subject:
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Poetry
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Subject:
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Quilting
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Subject:
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Repetitive patterns (Decorative arts) in art
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Publisher:
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Janus Press
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Date:
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1997
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Language:
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English
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Type:
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Still Image
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Extent:
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34 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 21 x 23 cm
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Format/Medium:
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Artists' books
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Format/Medium:
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Accordion fold books
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Format/Medium:
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Clamshell boxes
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Format/Medium:
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Cloth
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Format/Medium:
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Collages
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Format/Medium:
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Japanese paper (handmade paper)
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Source:
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Beauty In Use, in Jen Library Archives and Special Collections, Savannah College of Art and Design.
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Relation:
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Catalog record: https://library.scad.edu/record=b1117477
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Rights:
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Copyright is retained by the authors or artists of items in this collection, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
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Identifier:
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b11174778
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Identifier:
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i11069065
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SCAD Location:
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Jen Library (Savannah)
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