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Book artist:
Hagstrom, Fred  Search this
Author:
Complemented by (work): Hagstrom, Fred Little book of slavery  Search this
Container of (work): Clarkson, Thomas 1760-1846 An essay on the impolicy of the African slave trade Selections  Search this
Container of (work): Mott, Abigail 1766-1851 Biographical sketches and interesting anecdotes of persons of color Selections  Search this
Smithsonian Libraries Artists' Books DSI  Search this
Publisher:
Strong Silent Type Press  Search this
Physical description:
24 unnumbered pages color illustrations 41 x 38 cm
Type:
Biography
Pictorial works
Artists' books (books).)
Artists' books
Biographies
Illustrated works
Screen prints
Specimens
Place:
Africa
United States
Date:
2016
2013
Notes:
"Printed in silkscreen on Rives paper. Font is Myriad Pro. binding is drum leaf"--Colophon
"Second edition of 11 + 1 variant"--Vamp & Tramp Booksellers' website
Case-bound with cloth over spine and back cover. Front cover is paper over board with image and title screen printed
Limited edition of 11 copies, signed, noted as "2nd ed.," and numbered by the artist
The author did not change the reprint date to 2016. So the original publication was 2013 with a reprint in 2016."--Correspondence from Vamp & Tramp
AFA copy is a Gift from Janet Stanley
AFA copy is no. 1 of 11 of the second edition reprinted in 2016
Summary:
"Passage uses images and texts from two historical books that were important for building opposition to the slave trade: An Essay on the Impolicy of the African Slave Trade by Thomas Clarkson, 1788, and Biographical Sketches and Interesting Anecdotes of Person of Color by A.Mott, 1837. Both books presented stark evidence of the cruelty of the slave trade. The Clarkson diagrams showing the conditions of how people were transported for the middle passage was a particularly important visual symbol for the abolition movement. Passage combines the diagram images with archival photographs of people who lived part of their lives as slaves."--Artist's statement at the Vamp & Tramp Booksellers' website, viewed on August 2, 2016
Topic:
African Americans  Search this
Autobiographical memory in art  Search this
Families in art  Search this
Slave trade in art  Search this
Slave trade  Search this
Slavery in art  Search this
Artists' books  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1060343