"They'd Kill Us If They Knew": Transgression and the Western

Authors

Jessica Perkins, Rhode Island School of DesignFollow
Special Collections, Rhode Island School of DesignFollow
Fleet Library, Rhode Island School of DesignFollow

Files

Publication Date

4-1-2022

Description

Entry for the 9th Annual Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest. Opening Reception Thursday, March 02, 2023, Fleet Library, Main Reading Room. Juror: Andre Lee Bassuet.

Keywords

artists' books; Baker & Whitehill

Disciplines

Book and Paper

Student Status

Undergraduate student

Year of Graduation

2023

Major

Graphic Design

Faculty / Course

Ernesto Aparicio, Design for Publishing

Materials + Techniques

Riso printing, laser printing on newsprint and artist's paper

Student Narrative

A small scale, riso printed zine that reimagines Sue Brower’s essay “They’d Kill Us if They Knew”: Transgression and the Western (Journal of Film and Video , Vol. 62, No. 4 (Winter 2010), pp. 47-57). The body is set in Rockwell by Monotype Studio, and headings and captions are set in Job Clarendon by David Jonathan Ross. The page size (6 ½ by 4 ¼ inches) is a reference to old western dime novels, and the wide, horizontal format brings to mind the broad expanse of the cinematic western landscape.

Recommended Citation

Perkins, Jessica; Collections, Special; and Library, Fleet, ""They'd Kill Us If They Knew": Transgression and the Western" (2022). 9th Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest 2023. 16.
https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/specialcollections_bookcontest9th2023/16