2 Items, 1 volume with slipcase : includes illustrations, 21 cm
Quantity
Creator
White, Sara E. (Sara Elizabeth), 1985-
Creator
Alluvium Press
Creator
Small Craft Advisory Press
Language
English
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Technical
"Riverine was letterpress printed and bound using handmade cotton-abaca paper during an artist's residency at Small Craft
Advisory Press in Tallahassee, Florida by Sara White, MFA candidate in Book Arts at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa"--Colophon.
Rare Book Room copy is 7 of 35.
Description
"RIVERINE is an artist's book and fragmented essay about a riparian landscape in New Orleans, LA called the 'batture.' Accompanied
by letterpress printed imagery and textures of industrial structures and nature that inhabit this landscape located between
the man-made levee and Mississippi River along the margins of the city, the book's text shifts and flows with each page-turn.
It pays homage to communities that have existed on the batture in homes on stilts throughout history and the liminal experience
of living in a place that is neither water nor solid ground, undefinable and always changing"--Vamp and Tramp Booksellers
website, viewed October 28, 2016.
"The photographs in this book were originally printed in These Were Our Homes, a pamphlet written and compiled by Elizabeth
Cousins Rogers in New Orleans, 1954, in an effort to publicize the unjust destruction of homes along the batture. Much of
the information in RIverine came from the Batture Dwellers Association Records 1949-1958, Howard Tilton Memorial Library Special
Collections, Tulane University"--Inside of chemise.
