Box 2
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Contains 2 Results:
"Divide and Conquer" pages, 2007
File — Box: 2, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents
Two pages, each with three individual paper doll-like prints with portraits on the front and text on the back, from Maureen Cummins' artist book Divide and Conquer. The pages' text shares the stories of Essick Harris and Charlotte Fowler. The front portraits may be mixed and matched. The medium is intended to illustrate how the Ku Klux Klan objectified and played with people's lives and raise questions about how communities form and are pulled apart.Source:...
Dates:
2007
"The/rapist" pages, 2017
File — Box: 2, Folder: 2-4
Scope and Contents
Three pages, in the form of engraved aluminum plates, from Maureen Cummins' artist book The/rapist. One is a page from the middle of the book, while the other two plates are the last two pages of the book. The book explores the gendered history of psychosurgery via the history of Dr. Walter Freeman, whose work popularized lobotomy. The book's shape mimics a medical chart, while the aluminum plates evoke a hospital environment and surgical tools.
Dates:
2017