Yi costume festival
| Description: |
A pop-up book made from Fus photographs.All design, photography, and production by Colette Fu.Edition of 10.Funded in part by the Fulbright Scholarship, the Independence Foundation, the Puffin Foundation, and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.From the We are Tiger Dragon People series.My pop-ups are a way for me to speak, mediate, express, delight and inform. Constructing pop-ups allows me to combine intuitive design and technical acuity with my love of traveling as I try to understand the world around me. With pop-up books I want to eliminate the boundaries between book, installation, photography, craft and sculpture--Statement from the artists personal website (viewed June 20, 2014)With the help of a Fulbright fellowship, Fu began photographing for this project in 2008. 25 of the 55 minority tribes of China reside in Yunnan Province and comprise only 8% of the nations population, with the Han representing the majority. Fus mother is a member of the black Yi tribe, her grandfather was Lung Yun, Governor of Yunnan from 1927-1945, and Commander-in-Chief of the 1st Army Group. The hats pictured in this edition are inspired by a Yi folk tale: Long ago, there was a young Yi couple in love. In pursuit of the girl, a jealous Devil King tried to kill the boy. An old man taught the young girl to crow like a rooster to call out the sun and drive the Devil away. The girl saved her boyfriend, and the villagers now show their gratitude by wearing cockscomb hats that bring luck, safety and happiness to their people--Vamp & Tramp Booksellers website (accessed June 7, 2018). |
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| Origin: | 2013 |
| Created By: |
Fu, Colette |
| Publisher: |
[Philadelphia] : [Colette Fu], [2013?] |
| Source: |
http://iuidigital.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/BookArts/id/760 |
| Collection: |
Herron Library Fine Press and Book Arts Collection |
| Rights: | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ |
| Copyright: |
In Copyright |
| Subjects: |
Fu, Colette. Artists books--Specimens. Pop-up books--Specimens. Yi (Chinese people)--Pictorial works. Photography in art. Folk literature--In art. Festivals--China--Yunnan Sheng. Tribes--Pictorial works. Hats--Pictorial works. Yunnan Sheng (China)--Pictorial works. rice paper, Chinese brocade-covered board, tassel (From publishers description) Each vial contains lozenge-sized circles allegedly punched from pages of first hardcover editions of twenty-six works of literature, treated with a solution that captures the precise and particular odor of a given work. Each essence--hence, each book--cures, alleviates, or engages certain feelings, symptoms, or conditions, as indicated by the accompanying cards. |
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This project is made possible by a grant from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services, administered by the Indiana State Library.