Promenade - A Voyeurs Guide to America

Description:	This unconventional travel guide to America chronicles the experience of an artist on the road described through 26 woodcut prints. The prints range from events like a rodeo and happy hour, to Chicago on the day of the stock crash of 1987, to a jazz club in New York and a wrecking yard in Jamaica Queens, along the way it includes murders, car wrecks, and homecoming parades. Over the nine month period that the artist traveled around the country he camped in snow storms, and in swamps, worked as a janitor, and cut the wood blocks that make up this book.--Epigone Press statement from Vamp & Tramp Booksellers website (accessed August 16, 2018).Does political art have an impact on the world? The right wing response is to say art never stopped a war, art didnt stop lynching, art didnt save the I-Hotel nor did it end repressive attacks on homeless people. But art does not exist in a vacuum. It is a part of culture. And political art that stands up to the repressive forces of society is a part of the culture of change. Political art does have effects in the real world, it is clearly part of the force, not the only force, but part of the force that keeps the human spirit alive. It keeps the flame of justice burning. It keeps memory alive. It moves with the struggles and moves those struggles forward--Artists statement from Vamp & Tramp website (viewed August 21, 2014)I-ART: Library has 33/50.
Origin:	1989
Created By:	Hazelwood, Art
Publisher:	Santa Fe, New Mexico: Art Hazelwood / Epigone Press, 1989.
Source:	http://iuidigital.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/BookArts/id/2740
Collection:	Herron Library Fine Press and Book Arts Collection
Rights:	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Copyright:	In Copyright
Subjects:	Hazelwood, Art--Catalogs sewn Masa paper

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