Showing posts with label East Village. Show all posts
Showing posts with label East Village. Show all posts

Friday, November 29, 2013

"In the winter, the speculators get cold and the East-Village starts to burn" (Artist's Book Series XXIV)

41287-IMG_6170I consider this item the jewel in the collection. A great bit of story (gentrification of the East Village area of Manhattan); intricate graphic work, paper folding and cutting, and a unique inclusion of found objects (cigarette butts, bottle caps, a burnt matchstick, and dirt/sand from the streets).

Beatrice Schafroth
Rent-Free in the East Village (1985)
New York, Self-Published
Assemblage, text, and drawings illustrating life in the East Village; there is also a copy in the Joan Flasch Artists' Book Collection at the School of the Art Institute
Cost: $11.50 | x41287 | Joan Flasch Artists' Book Collection



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