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The animal is in the world like water in water

Title
The animal is in the world like water in water / text by Leslie Scalapino ; drawings by Kiki Smith.
Author
Scalapino, Leslie.
Publication
New York City : Granary Books, 2010.

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Additional Authors
  • Smith, Kiki, 1954-
  • Kuehn, Katherine.
  • D'Amario, Nina
  • Israels, Justin
  • Kelm, Daniel E.
  • Lee, Kylin
  • Purcell, Leah
  • Wide Awake Garage, binder.
  • Granary Books (Firm)
Description
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill.; 40 cm.
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Genre/Form
Artists' books – New York – 2010-2019.
Note
  • "... Scalapino's text was written in response to a series of drawings by Kiki Smith entitled 'Woman being eaten by animals.'"--Colophon.
  • Printed on single sheet of paper folded into an accordion structure comprising 42 leaves in ivory-colored suede wrappers by Daniel Kelm, with final leaf affixed to back wrapper; with title blind-embossed in recessed, smoothed panel on front wrapper; issued in clam shell box covered in beige cloth, with gray paper label bearing title printed in black affixed to recessed panel on front cover.
  • "... produced by Katherine Kuehn and Steve Clay. Typography by Nina D'Amario. Printed by Justin Israels on Niyoda white paper (63 GSM) using an Epson 3800 printer. The accordian binding structure was designed by Daniel E. Kelm and Katherine Kuehn and was executed by Daniel E. Kelm, Kylin Lee, and Leah Purcell at the Wide Awake Garage in Easthampton, Ma. There are 45 copies in the edition of which 30 are for sale."--Colophon.
  • "The title is a phrase by Georges Bataille from The Theory of Religion."--Colophon.
  • Illustrations by Kiki Smith in black, gray, and red on each page depict lion, tiger, leopard, and wolf biting and clawing naked young woman; digitally printed by Justin Israels and hand colored by Kiki Smith.
  • In Scalapino's essay "The Division Between Fact and Experience," Scalapino describes the origin of the book, from which the following is excerpted: "The Animal is in the World like Water in Water is a collaboration of drawings by Kiki Smith and poetry by Leslie Scalapino (myself), published by Granary Books in 2010. Kiki Smith sent me color Xeroxes of a completed sequence, forty-three drawings, which she'd titled, Women Being Eaten by Animals. I wrote the poem using the sense of an unalterable past occurrence: One female, apparently the same girl, is repeatedly, in very similar images as variations, bitten and clawed by a leopard-like, lion-like animal. Both person and animal have abstracted features, giving the impression of innocence or opaqueness. As in a dream of similar actions or a dream of a single, timeless action, the girl flecked with blood while being unaltered by the animal's touch, there is no representation of motion except stillness of the figures floating in space of page. Neither the girl nor the animal articulate expression, as if phenomena of feeling(s) do not exist. [...] the viewer has the experience of body and mind being separated as if that is caused by the outside world. This experience of the viewer arises from their sense, in seeing, that one is separated from the scene of the girl and the animal alone together as if making love; and a sense of separation arises from the girl and animal not mimicking expressions of experiencing sensations."
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Call Number
Berg Coll+ Scalapino A55 2010
OCLC
501182928
Author
Scalapino, Leslie.
Title
The animal is in the world like water in water / text by Leslie Scalapino ; drawings by Kiki Smith.
Imprint
New York City : Granary Books, 2010.
Access
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Local Note
Berg Collection copy is no. 5 of 40.
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Added Author
Smith, Kiki, 1954- ill.
Kuehn, Katherine.
D'Amario, Nina, typographer.
Israels, Justin, printer.
Kelm, Daniel E., binder.
Lee, Kylin, binder.
Purcell, Leah, binder.
Wide Awake Garage, binder.
Granary Books (Firm)
Scalapino, Leslie. Signer
Smith, Kiki, 1954- Signer
Research Call Number
Berg Coll+ Scalapino A55 2010
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