Can You See What I See?

Creator

Sandra Erbacher
Special Collections, Rhode Island School of DesignFollow
Fleet Library, Rhode Island School of DesignFollow

Files

Creation Date

2023

Keywords

artists' books; camouflage; military uniforms; military engineering; patterns (design elements)

Description

90 unnumbered pages : illustrations. Edition of 25. "'Can You See What I See?' borrows from the format of the Children's Activity Book to explore themes of visibility and violence in warfare and education. Children's Activity Books are a popular genre of publication meant to be in equal parts educational and entertaining. Often thematic in nature and printed on cheap gray paper, they are filled with coloring pages, and well known games and puzzles such as Word Search and Spot the Difference. In 'Can You See What I See?', the coloring pages, rather than featuring popular cartoon characters or farm animals, consist of line-based compositions based on contemporary and historical military camouflage patterns from around the world. Word Search puzzles prompt viewers to identify missile and fighter jets that were named after animals or common weather phenomena. Spot the sniper, another set of images that appears throughout the book, is based on the Hidden Object Puzzle - a learning game asking children to find objects in a busy composition."-- Artist's webpage. Pagination and edition statement from artist's webpage. Perfect bound. Paper cover has five color camouflage pattern.

RISD Fleet Library Catalog Record

https://librarycat.risd.edu/record=b1766804~S5

Press

[New York?] : S. Erbacher, 2023.

Rights

©[New York?] : S. Erbacher, 2023.

Materials / Techniques

black-and-white prints (photographs); perfect bindings

Measurements

28 cm