Artist:
Loewe, Kimberly
Title:
How Disease Can Be Beautiful…Through the Back Loop Our Soul is Fully Christmas
Date:
2001
Object Name:
Artists' Book
Description:
How Disease Can Be Beautiful combines the sporadic layout and immediacy of a sketchbook or field notebook with the precision of medical imagery and technical diagrams, depicting anatomy, flora and fauna, angels, and sewing patterns. Navigating the book is a bit like flipping through an anatomy flip-book thanks to the visibility of the heavily-saturated, blood-red drawings and the transparency of the tissue-like paper pages, each turn of the page revealing new layers as pictures flip, fuse, and recombine. The accompanying crocheted appliques depict both amorphous and more literal anatomical structures, and bring a sense of play and humor to the somber and mysterious illustrations. This collaboration came early in the careers of artists Jill Spector and Kimberly Loewe, who have since worked in sculpture, performance, and photography or painting, drawing, and ceramics, respectively.
Published by K-Kay Press at the LeRoy Neiman Center for Print Studies at Columbia University, NYC. Edition 1/100. 8 ½ x 9 inches.
Published by K-Kay Press at the LeRoy Neiman Center for Print Studies at Columbia University, NYC. Edition 1/100. 8 ½ x 9 inches.
Material:
paper, fiber
Technique:
screen printing, crocheting, pamphlet binding
People:
Loewe, Kimberly
Spector, Jill
Spector, Jill
Source:
Loewe, Kimberly
Object ID:
2004.1.1
Copyright:
Kimberly Loewe and Jill Spector. Reproduced with permission from the artists.
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