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05719aam a2200793Ii 4500 001 A5163A90580511E8A8F83C5097128E48 003 SILO 005 20180515010114 008 170504s2017 nyua 000 0 eng d 035 $a (OCoLC)985470061 040 $a BBH $b eng $e rda $c BBH $d BBH $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d WAU $d WTU $d IAC $d EUW $d OCLCO $d WAU $d NUI $d SILO 050 14 $a N7433.4.C8 $b T54 2017 082 14 $a 702.81 $b C971t2017 100 1 $a Cummins, Maureen, $e book artist. $e book artist. 245 10 $a The/rapist / $c by Maureen Cummins. 246 3 $a Therapist 246 3 $a The rapist 264 1 $a [High Falls, New York] : $b [Maureen Cummins], $c [2017] 300 $a 30 unnumbered pages : $b screenprinted aluminium ; $c 33 cm, in box (34 x 25 x 6 cm) + 4 extra aluminium plates. 500 $a Cover title. 500 $a Limited edition of 40 copies, signed and numbered by the artist. 500 $a Library copy is 23/40 and includes uncut protective paper shipping wrap and four extra (imperfect) aluminium plates. $5 IaU 500 $a Artist's book. 520 $a "[A]n investigation into the gendered history of psychosurgery, as illustrated by the career of Doctor Walter Freeman ... Professor of Neurology with no formal training in either surgery or psychology ... popularized the pre-frontal lobotomy ... A self-styled showman who drove ice picks through his patients' eye sockets, rode around in a 'lobotomobile,' and conducted a 1953 tour dubbed 'Operation Ice-Pick,' Freeman freely admitted that his work created a 'surgically induced childhood,' with many 'failed outcomes' ... [R]aises numerous and disturbing questions about patients' rights, the abuse of institutional power, and the disproportionate targeting of women ... Cummins uses the analogy of physical rape to suggest the way in which psychosurgery became a form of violence-against-women (and men) perpetuated in the name of medical progress"--Aside of Books Booksellers' website, August 8, 2017. $u http://www.asideofbooks.com/2017/04/24/new-from-maureen-cummins-therapist/ 500 $a "Constructed entirely out of aluminum, The/rapist is inspired by the cold, hard surfaces of medical clipboards and equipment, as well as by Freeman's actual tools, viewed by the artist in the Freeman/Watts collection at GWU [George Washington University], where she conducted her initial research. Pages of the book are laser-cut, burnished on one side, printed with multiple layers of text and imagery, 'dimpled' to prevent scratching and wear, then mounted within rings to a sturdy baseboard. The text is printed in Frutiger, a classic mid-century sans-serif typeface. Images reproduced in the book are 19th century engravings, handwritten notes and text, as well as graphs and headshots from Freeman's 1950 textbook 'Psychosurgery: In the Treatment of Mental Disorders and Intractable Pain'. The book is housed in a burnished aluminum box with a screwed-down aluminum title plate"--Aside of Books Booksellers' website, August 8, 2017. 500 $a "[P]roduced by Maureen Cummins ... with typographic assistance from Kathleen McMillan, production assistance from Molly Berkson and Sarah Rose Lejeune, and metalwork by Charles Hubert ... The pages of the book are laser-cut aluminum, with silkscreen-printed text and imagery. All printing work was done at Women's Studio Workshop in Rosendale, New York. With special thanks to Swarthmore College and University of Washington"--Colophon. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (colophon). 600 10 $a Freeman, Walter, $d 1895-1972. 600 17 $a Freeman, Walter, $d 1895-1972. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00228950 650 0 $a Artists' books $z United States. 650 0 $a Psychosurgery $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Frontal lobotomy $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Mental illness in art. 650 0 $a Violence in art. 650 0 $a Surgery in art. 650 0 $a Women in art. 650 0 $a Women $x Crimes against $z Washington (D.C.) 650 0 $a Physician and patient $x Moral and ethical aspects. 650 0 $a Aluminum work $v Specimens. 650 12 $a Medicine in the Arts. $0 (DNLM)D008512 650 22 $a Psychosurgery $x ethics. $0 (DNLM)D011612Q000941 650 22 $a Physician-Patient Relations. $0 (DNLM)D010817 650 7 $a Aluminum work. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00806464 650 7 $a Artists' books. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00817660 650 7 $a Frontal lobotomy. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00935362 650 7 $a Mental illness in art. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01921233 650 7 $a Physician and patient $x Moral and ethical aspects. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01062821 650 7 $a Psychosurgery. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01081716 650 7 $a Surgery in art. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01139396 650 7 $a Violence in art. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01167273 650 7 $a Women $x Crimes against. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01176618 650 7 $a Women in art. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01177826 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 651 7 $a Washington (D.C.) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204505 648 7 $a 1900-1999 $2 fast 655 0 $a Artists' books. 655 7 $a Artists' books $z High Falls $z High Falls $y 2017. $2 rbgenr 655 7 $a Aluminum bindings (Binding) $y 2017. $2 rbbin 655 7 $a Aluminum (Metal) $2 aat 655 7 $a Laser beam cutting. $2 aat 655 7 $a Screen prints. $2 aat 655 7 $a Appropriation (Imagery) $2 aat 655 7 $a Artists' books. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01750153 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 655 7 $a Specimens. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423861 710 2 $a Women's Studio Workshop. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191211024009.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=A5163A90580511E8A8F83C5097128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search