Physical description |
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly illustrations ; 26 x 51 cm |
Notes |
"...The book was completed in 2008, but was made over the previous 2 years beneath the shadow of wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Sudan, Lebanon, political turmoil in Palestine, Myanmar, Chechnya, Zimbawe, East Timor, Sri Lanka and North Korea, and the all-encompassing War on Terror ... Eyewitness uses Magnani Incisioni 650 paper 310 gsm and has been bound by Daphne Lera, assisted by Monica Oppen. The book has been printed at Marieke Dench's studio and is issued in an edition of 10, with 4 artist's proofs. ..."--Colophon. |
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In EYEWITNESS, the text is handwritten and each page is individually painted, so that no two volumes are the same. The text is drawn from newspaper headlines, media reports and school lessons - the repeated slabs of text enforces the "punishment" theme running through the work. It comes in a calico "cover", resembling the hooded military prisoners we have seen on television during this period: the cover itself is hand-bound, with exposed stitching on the spine recalling the stitching together of lips by detainees. Six leather straps around the spine evoke prison bars, while the blood-red buckram cover is scored with a heavy black bar across a number representing the censorship of secret government documents. |
Local note |
SpC/ARTBOOK copy is no. 2. It is accompanied by a CD with images of each page, the working notes and mockup generated in the creation of the work. |
Other author |
Lyssiotis, Peter.
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Lera, Daphne, binder.
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Oppen, Monica, binder.
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Dench, Marieke, printer.
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Subject |
Artists' books -- Australia.
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War in art.
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