Madness: Reading Hamlet in the Time of Covid-19 and Other Plagues with intrusions from the world around me and William Shakespeare [Artist Book]

Martin, Emily

Published by Naughty Dog Press, Iowa City, Iowa, 2022

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Limited Edition. Original Wraps. "Madness was created during the pandemic and went through many forms before it became what you see here. Its appearance and content are very much shaped by my time in isolation. Initially, I copied out the play Hamlet by hand starting in March 2020 because I was too anxious to sit and read. I also was making paper puppets for companionship. The project kept changing as events swirled around me. I struggled to make sense of the project in a world gone crazy. The text is a crazy quilt arrangement of lines from Hamlet and my writing on repeating themes of fear, disease, Black Lives Matter, Asian hate crimes, the insurrection, so much death and isolation, and more. Madness was printed letterpress with polymer plates from Boxcar Press on Arches Text wove paper. The background pattern is made up of my renderings of tears, drops of blood, Covid-19 particles and bullet holes. The paper puppet inclusions were printed on University of Iowa Center for the Book Chancery paper and are costumed in papers of wheat straw, sisal, daylily fibers, and abaca paste papers made by Andrea Peterson." [artist statement]. Tight, bright, and unmarred. Brown paper wraps, white paper spine, printed white paper onlay, accordion structure, removable spine to extend pages; black cloth box with printed spine label. 8vo. np [22pp]. Illus. (color plates). Limited edition of 25 copies. Signed and numbered by the artist. Fine in Fine Drop-Spine Archival Box.

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Title: Madness: Reading Hamlet in the Time of Covid-19 and Other Plagues with intrusions from the world around me and William Shakespeare [Artist Book]
Publisher: Naughty Dog Press, Iowa City, Iowa
Publication Date: 2022
Binding: Original Wraps
Edition: Limited Edition.
Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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