Research Catalog

Title

Cry uncle / words and images by Frances Jetter.

Author

Jetter, Frances

Publication

• [New York] : Frances Jetter, [2009].
• ©2009

Supplementary Content

Artist's description and images

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Sanz, Justin
• Kruty, Peter
• Weinz, Susan

Description

1 folded sheet (20 unnumbered pages) : 11 illustrations; 49 x 64 cm

Summary

Consists of 20 sheets of translucent Japanese paper joined end to end and folded accordion-style; first and last sheets attached to blank sheets of a heavier translucent paper. The whole unfolds to a strip approximately 49 x 1386 cm. Contains 11 full-page linocuts printed in black and red; one contains other colors. Letterpress printed in black and red from wood types.

Subjects

• Torture > Moral and ethical aspects
• Jetter, Frances
• Wood types (Type evidence)
• Politics in art
• Torture in art
• Torture > Moral and ethical aspects > United States > Pictorial works
• Artists' books > United States > 21st century
• United States

Genre/Form

• Artists' books – United States – 21st century.
• Wood types (Type evidence)

Note

• Edition of 15 numbered and signed copies.
• Cover title. Statement of responsibility from copyright statement on last page.
• "'Cry uncle,' an expression used by bullies to demand submission of the other, is the title of this 23-page accordion fold book, a graphic response to man's inhumanity to man in Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo, and Bagram ... My work focuses on telling stories in pictures. Political subject matter, not only to protest and document, intrigues me as an exploration of human nature. The way type looks and sounds as it becomes a character's voice interests me, as well as how language changes meaning by modifying scale or font. The zippered red mouth on the sack that holds the book is the beginning and end of the story; the torturer's lips are sealed"--Franes Jetter's website, viewed August 10, 2016.
• "In 2009, I wrote, designed and illustrated 'Cry uncle, ' which begins in the Orwellian 'Ministry of Love,' 'where they had ways to make you talk.' A canvas sack holds a portfolio covered with thin, creased, fragile-looking Nepalese paper resembling human skin. 11 images carved from 18" x 24" linoleum blocks, and the larger letterpress text from old wooden letters, were printed on translucent, handmade Japanese paper, allowing the viewer to glimpse the shadow image of what came before"--Artist's website, viewed August 10, 2016.
• "The talent, knowledge and care of a number of people went into this book. Justin Sanz ... brought out tremendous richness and at the same time managed to preserve extreme detail in his prints from my linoleum blocks ... Peter Kruty, of Peter Kruty Editions, with his great command of letterpress, transformed the text pages, and with Susan Weinz assembled the concertina and the book portfolio ... Irving Grunbaum provided digital type and files ... The careful work Robin Peterson did on the hand-stitched pages was also helpful. Daydream Silkscreen printed on the canvas which was later sewn into the book bag by Illeana Manda--her meticulous hand stitches finishing the zippered mouth"--Artist's website, viewed August 10, 2016.

Binding (note)

• Issued in portfolio and housed in a zippered canvas bag with image of pyramids (alluding to design on reverse of the Great Seal of the United States) arranged to suggest a face with closed eyes, the metal-toothed zipper being the closed mouth. The design is screenprinted from an original linocut.

Call Number

Spencer Coll. Amer. 2009 16-39

OCLC

695594959

Author

Jetter, Frances, book artist.

Title

Cry uncle / words and images by Frances Jetter.

Publisher

[New York] : Frances Jetter, [2009].

Copyright Date

©2009

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

sheet

Local Note

Spencer Coll. copy is no. 2/15; signed by Frances Jetter.

Binding

Issued in portfolio and housed in a zippered canvas bag with image of pyramids (alluding to design on reverse of the Great Seal of the United States) arranged to suggest a face with closed eyes, the metal-toothed zipper being the closed mouth. The design is screenprinted from an original linocut.

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Artist's description and images

Place of Publication

United States New York (State) New York.

Added Author

Sanz, Justin, printer of plates.

Kruty, Peter, printer, binder.

Weinz, Susan, binder.

Research Call Number

Spencer Coll. Amer. 2009 16-39