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Years yet yesterday : an abecedary, minus two letters
Title
Years yet yesterday : an abecedary, minus two letters / by Mark Addison Smith.
Publication
[New York, N.Y.] : Mark Addison Smith, 2015.
Physical Description
57 unnumbered pages : chiefly illustrations ; 24 x 24 cm
Local Notes
AOB copy is 49/365.
Notes
Cover title.
"This series ... was completed on November 5, 2014 to commemorate the 10th anniversary of Larry Kramer's speech, 'The Tragedy of Today's Gays, ' and to invite viewers to reflect upon a decade-long sliver of the 30+ ongoing years of the AIDS crisis."--Front cover flap.
"This book of 24 works was printed in 2015 ... in an edition of 365"--Back cover flap.
Edition is numbered and signed by author.
Includes a brief interview reprinted from 2014.
"This artists' book was developed as part of the Years Yet Yesterday gallery exhibition, November 20, 2015 - January 5, 2016 at the Center on Halsted: Chicago's lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender community center"--Page [57].
Summary
"Consists of an abecedary of 24 text-based drawings inspired by playwright and activist Larry Kramer's 2004 call-to-action speech, The tragedy of today's gays. Each drawing is dedicated to a letter in the alphabet, and drawn using three words--rewritten hundreds of times--that appear in the original speech (the complete set contains 24 works because Kramer's speech did not include any words beginning with an X or a Z). The drawings first began in Chicago in 2010 and completed in New York City in 2014. This series was completed to commemorate the 10th anniversary of Kramer's speech, with hopes of inviting viewers to reflect upon a decade-long sliver of the 30+ ongoing years of the AIDS crisis"--The Visual AIDS website.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 02, 2016
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Interviews.
Artists' books.
Artists' books - New York (State) - New York - 2015.
Exhibition catalogues.
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