Tear Here

front cover of the artists book Tear Here
pages from the artists book Tear Here

Title

Tear Here

Subject

Studio Arts, Political Science

Description

"Cover title. ""Written, designed and produced by Brandon Graham at CCCCBPA [Columbia College Chicago Center for Book and Paper Arts]""--Colophon. Page count includes stubs.

Artist's statement: ""Tear Here started with taking a set of military uniforms, cutting off the arms and legs, and lashing them back together with red thread. Then I took digital images, tore at the seams, and visually documented the seams ripping apart. Using the structural vocabulary of the codex, Tear Here explores the ways in which the conflict in Iraq tears away at the bodies and the lives of those soldiers who serve in the U.S. military""--Vamp & Tramp, Booksellers' website.

Designed in InDesign, and printed on a Color Laser Jet on linen-textured paper. Some pages perforated, detached, and rejoined via mechanical sewingCoptic binding with sewing exposed.

Text consists of a short fictional story about a woman who lost part of her arm while serving in the U.S. Army during the Iraq War, which is juxtaposed with facts and statistics about the Iraq War, amputation and dismemberment resulting from military conflict, and modern warfare."

Creator

Graham, Brandon

Publisher

Brandon Graham

Date

2007

Rights

CONSORT Catalog
CONSORT Catalog

Format

[48] p.: col. ill.; 17 x 15 cm

Language

English

Barcode

35108007030117

Location and Call Number

DEN Spec Coll N7433.4.G73 .T43 2007

Library catalog URL

http://consort.library.denison.edu/record=b3705566a

Collection

Citation

Graham, Brandon, “Tear Here,” Digital Exhibits | Denison University Archives & Special Collections, accessed March 28, 2024, https://exhibits.denisonarchives.org/items/show/143.