Desdemona in her own words : extracted from Othello

Description:	This book in pages resulted from my reading and rereading of the play Othello with a particular interest in Desdemona. To this modern reader Desdemona is dismayingly passive. I isolated her lines and made a set of individual word magnets so I could arrange and rearrange her words to see what else she might say. While I cannot make her say some of the things I wish she would, I found that in the time I have spent with her words I developed a greater appreciation for the language of the play. The result is this very short play consisting of a prologue, five acts and a coda. Some of the lines are addressed specifically to Othello, Iago or the supporting characters Emilia, Cassio and Brabantio who I have taken to thinking of as a combined chorus figure and two lines are addressed to the world at large--Colophon.An edition of fourteen with various numbers of artists proofs--Colophon.Copies are signed and numbered by the artist in pencil on the colophon sheet.This book is the second of a series of works using my re-ordered lines for Desdemona. The re-ordered lines were completed in the fall of 2013. The images were begun during the 2014 winter residency at Penland School of Crafts ... Preliminary drawings were done in advance of the residency. The images themselves were composed at the press using a variety of materials that allowed not only for spontaneous assembly, such as bent wire and collographs using adhesive foams, but these materials could also be altered and adjusted immediately as needed. A book of individual pages [letterpress] printed in four colors of rubber based ink on two different SP15 Vandercook proof presses using handset type and wire, sonder foam, flexi-cut, hand made corn fiber paper from Andrea Peterson and grit from the grounds of Penland. The paper is Sakamoto lightweight. Each page is enclosed in a folder to designate its position in the book. The title page, colophon page and folder papers are Arches Text Wove. The end sheets are duplexed Bugra paper ... A complete set of Desdemonas individual word magnets are included in the boxed book--Colophon.I have always sought to match the format of my books to the content I am exploring. As a result, Desdemona In Her Own Words is a book of individual pages to allow each of Desdemonas statements to be seen as stand-alone declarations, each page is contained in a folder to denote its place in this new play ... All is contained in a cloth covered clamshell box that is lined with sheet metal covered with Sakamoto paper to hold a complete set of Desdemonas individual word magnets--Artists statement at the Minnesota Center for Book Arts Prize website, viewed on October 29, 2015.I-ART: Library has 9/10.
Origin:	2014
Created By:	Martin, Emily, 1953-
Publisher:	[Iowa City, Iowa] : Naughty Dog Press, [2014]
Source:	http://iuidigital.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/BookArts/id/417
Collection:	Herron Library Fine Press and Book Arts Collection
Rights:	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Copyright:	In Copyright
Subjects:	Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Othello. Desdemona (Fictitious character) Feminism in art. Women in art. Love in art. Artists books--Iowa--Iowa City--Specimens. Artists books Iowa Iowa City 2014. Visual literature. Artists books. Drama. Artists books. Drama. Specimens. Arches Text Wove paper, Sakamoto lightweight paper, Bugra paper, clamshell box, adhesive plates, wire,collographs

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