Family: A Book

Family: A Book

Studio Arts

Accordion-folded book housed in a wooden box with a front door that opens with a ribbon pull tab. Illustrations are of household tools or utensils which are meant to represent family members--hammer represents father, spatula represents mother, screwdriver represents brother, scissors represents sister. These four tools are overlaid on dictionary-style definitions of each family member. The book suggests that the family unit has preconceived gender and sex roles for each family member, which serve as a tool of socialization and sterotype beyond the family. One folded strip of Guttenberg Laid paper producing 7 pages in an accordion structure. Silkscreen and letterpress. Verso of box stamped with dictionary entry for Family. Issued in an edition of 100, numbered and signed by the artist.

MacDonald, Rita

Women's Studio Workshop

1994

"[7] leaves: col. ill.; folded to 18 x 6 cm. in wooden box (19 x 8 x 2 cm.)

Denison's copy is number 56 of 100 and signed by artist."

English

35108007277825

DEN Spec Coll N7433.4.M33 .F36 1994