| Physical description |
28 unnumbered pages ; color folded illustrations ; 21 x 30 cm |
| Notes |
"Handprinted by the artist at Steindruck München. Developed for the exhibition "Banned books in Australia", The University of Melbourne, 7 June-29th August 2010" |
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"... draws its inspiration from the book 'I was Hitler's maid' written by Pauline Kohler and published by John Long, London in 1940" |
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Limited ed. of 15 signed and numbered copies. |
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Printed on single sheet folded concertina-style. |
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This 28-page hand-printed lithographic artist book takes Pauline Kohler's banned 1940 publication I was Hitler's Maid as the departure point to make a conceptual journey of Hitler's Berghof in Berchtesgaden, Germany, a place that achieved a mythic status in the minds of both the Germans and the Allies during World War II. Using a concertina structure with a flow of drawn images in deep sepia tones across the inside and outside pages, the book seeks to imagine the spaces in which numerous important international diplomatic meetings took place in the lead-up to the Second World War and where Kohler's pre-war story is set. The book has an architectural structure and can be displayed standing up. Two-colour, hand-made book, hand-printed using stone lithography. |
| Local note |
SpC/ARTBOOK copy is no. 1 |
| Subject |
Lithography, Australian.
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Artists' books -- Australia -- Victoria.
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| Local author |
Richardson, Penelope, 1964- Signer.
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