Nets

Creator

Jen Bervin
unkown RISD student, Rhode Island School of Design
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Files

Creation Date

2004

Keywords

artists' books; altered book; sonnets; Shakespeare, William (English poet and playwright, 1564-1616); Stacked & Altered exhibition, summer 2022

Description

150 leaves. The texts of Shakespeare's 150 sonnets have been "stripped ... bare ... to make the space of the poems open, porous, possible ..."--Working note. The full text of Shakespeare is printed in light gray type, with the author's selected words printed in darker type. The title is derived in this manner from the word Sonnets. Library has a 2nd copy in Artists' Books: B458Ne. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition Stacked & Altered, summer 2022.

RISD Fleet Library Catalog Record

https://librarycat.risd.edu/record=b1192744~S4

Press

[Brooklyn, N.Y.] : Ugly Duckling Presse, 2004.

Rights

©[Brooklyn, N.Y.] : Ugly Duckling Presse, 2004.

Materials / Techniques

texts of Shakespeare's 150 sonnets; alteration (process and technique); paper

Measurements

15 cm