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Author:

Blassingame, Tia, artist. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2013104224.

Title:

Mourning/Warning : an abecedarian / Tia Blassingame.

Publisher:

Primrose Press,

Copyright Date:

2021

Description:

1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 28 cm.

Subject:

Artists' books--Specimens.
Artists' books--United States--Specimens.
Racism--United States.
Alphabet books.
Flags in art.
Memorialization--United States.
Murder victims--United States.
Murder victims.
Alphabet books.
Artists' books.
Flags in art.
Memorialization.
Racism.
United States.
Alphabet books.
Artists' books (books)--United States--21st century.
Artists' books.
Specimens.
Artists' books.

Other Authors:

Primrose Press, publisher.

Notes:

Reprint; originally printed 2015 in an edition of 26 numbered copies. Cover title. "Stripping the maritime alphabet of its primary colors and replacing them with muted browns and blacks, Mourning/Warning highlights the relationship of Americans of the African diaspora to water, maritime travel and the need for an alternate means of communication in times of emergency and duress. How do you send a warning call that hatred comes constantly in waves?" -- Author's web site. "Conceived of in Newport, Rhode Island, M/W was digitally printed in Josefin Sans typeface"--Colophon. Iowa State University copy: 16 of 26 copies. IaAS Iowa State University copy: Dated and initialled by the artist IaAS

Summary:

"M/W serves as a method of memorializing the slain and wronged, and of teaching our children and ourselves to be vigilant and wary in hostile terrain, where your skin color makes you an easy target"--Colophon.

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1244822757

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)