Life After Death Described and Explained
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Seller: Philip Salmon & Co. Rare Books, Boston, MA, U.S.A.Philip Salmon & Co. Rare Books
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Condition: Used - Fine
US$ 900.00
Quantity: 1 available
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(18)ff. A structured, sutured collage of found text and images, Kokin's stitched portrait of American middle class life reflects its anxieties and its capitulations to normativity. The volume begins by stating that "in the suburbs anesthesia is possible," summing up the argument that the engine of American power and capitalism feeds upon the "dream" of white-picket-fence comfort. Images of children, couples, and architecture are bordered by American flag stamps, themselves an ironical seal of approval of what those images depict. The result is a brilliant, and unsettling, address of the passivity which bleeds into submission to the will of those in power - a distinctly American experience. Housed in a found needle box. Fine.
Seller Inventory # 1526
Bibliographic details
- Title
- Life After Death Described and Explained
- Author
- Kokin, Lisa
- Publication year
- 2000
- Condition
- Fine
- Binding
- No binding
- Edition
- Unique. Signed by the artist.
Philip Salmon & Co. Rare Books
Boston, MA, U.S.A.
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Successor to Bromer Booksellers, Philip Salmon & Company Rare Books continues to offer the book beautiful in all its forms, including early children's books, toys and games; works by Edward Gorey; illustrated books; fine printing from all eras, with an emphasis on social justice themes; miniature books; and important literary first editions.
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607 Boylston Street
Boston, MA U.S.A. 02116
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