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An illustrated novel of the real world created by the acclaimed painter Nancy Chunn. Every day of 1966 Chunn claimed as an artistic canvas the front page of the N.Y. Times. Using rubber stamps & pastels to enhance, eradicate, & alter images & text, she created a commentary -- colorful, intense, visually explosive -- on the year's events & the power of the press. Chunn's treatment of the events we all lived through -- the Presidential campaign, the crash of TWA Flight 800, the wars in Chechnya & Rwanda -- will strike an immediate chord in readers tuned in to the political world awash in images & news. Gary Indiana's interview with the artist provides insights into the artistic process as a means of talking back to power & engaging with the world.
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Every day for an entire year, artist Nancy Chunn transformed page one of the New York Times into a canvas and created a painting in response to its contents. She altered photographs, painted all kinds of images and symbols, and supplied alternative headlines, offering witty, ironic, compassionate, and caustic visual and verbal commentary on all the news the New York Times saw fit to print on their illustrious front page. The headline "A Surge in Jobs Shows Strength in the Economy" inspired Don't Tell Wall Street, followed by a big black "down" arrow. Flotillas of coffins shadow articles about massacres; a field of blue crosses and the phrase "Greed Is Good" hover beneath the headline "A Move to Hospitals-for-Profit Gaining Support in New York." As readers track "happy" faces, footprints, rolling heads, pulled plugs, and targets across columns of type, they will either be riled by Chunn's doodlings or will feel that she has given a year's worth of head shakings and mutterings lasting form and meaning. Donna Seaman
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- PublisherDiane Pub Co
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 078816614X
- ISBN 13 9780788166143
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages206
- IllustratorNancy Chunn
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