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Created and published during a residency at Shandaken Projects in Catskill, New York, CONTENTS "...is a collection of details from recent graphite and colored pencil drawings by Ben DuVall. The drawings are the result of an ongoing research project into the graphic vocabulary of 20th century protest and mutual aid movements, with a specific focus on print ephemera, publications, and journalistic accounts. This 15-foot-long, accordion fold artists' book is the first to collect and reproduce these drawings at full scale, mainly highlighting material from the UK and North America from the 1960s through the 1990s". [publisher's note]
Comprised of fourteen double-page spreads that give you just enough information to begin making sense of the spreads, but not enough to get a full understanding of what's going on. The dot matrix print effect to the drawing style also lent for me a sentimental air to these pages as I noticed an undercurrent of political images & reporting from British print sources with one reference to the early anti-nuclear demonstrations at the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment at Aldermaston in the UK.
This artists' book represents a smart repositioning of drawings generated from one genre of printed matter and then folded back into another printed matter context that foregrounds both the original context as well as the new and expanded printed matter accordion site.
30 pages, individual 9.5" x 6" and when unfolded 15 feet.
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