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Physical description:
2 volumes in 1 binding (unpaged) in slipcase : color illustrations ; 25 x 36 cm
Type:
Books
Artists' books
Artists' books (books)
Place:
Netherlands
Cape of Good Hope (South Africa)
South Africa
Date:
2012
18th century
Notes:
Volume is bound French door style and contains two separate books: Book One, including an introduction by Keith Dietrich and an essay by Lize Van Robbroeck, and Book Two, bound concertina style, lists names, ages, crimes, and punishments as researched by historian Hans Heese
Includes the essay "Keith Dietrich's Fragile Histories," by Lize Van Robbroeck
AFA copy has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Gift from the Margery Masinter Foundation Endowment for Illustrated Books
AFA copy is number 5 of 10 and is signed by the artist
Summary:
"Fragile histories, fugitive lives: justice and injustice at the Cape, 1700-1800 supplements a series of four photomontage triptychs of the same title. This book narrates the tensions and textures of early colonial encounters at the Cape in South Africa"--Book 1
