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Title
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Every step a lotus / Alicia Bailey.
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Description
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Limited edition of 9 copies, signed and numbered by the artist. ; Box containing 14 unbound text panels in 2 sections plus a casebound book ... Reproduction: laser etching, laser printing, solid ink color prints, hand relief printing ... Book board, mica, gold plated metal, shellac, Italian composition leaf, acrylic, rayon ribbon, hand printed Verona book cloth ... Black museum board with paper handmade by Andrea Peterson--23 Sandy Gallery Booksellers' website, viewed on September 22, 2015. ; Two sets of painted wooden leaves with painted and engraved wooden covers, with ribbon closures. Pamphlet-sewn signature in cloth over boards holds an offset printed essay. Both sets of wooden leaves and sewn pamphlet are issued together in a wooden box with removable lid. Box is painted red and gold with lotus and shoe engravings. Circular hole is cut out of the top of the box and covered with clear plastic, displaying a metallic lotus charm. Title is engraved above the cut-out.
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In 2013 I was commissioned by the Denver Art Museum to create a work based on a piece from their permanent collection. I chose to work with a Sutra Box from 1904, using the format of the box but not its content ... My piece includes historic fact and observations about the tradition of foot binding in China ... The two sided unbound text panels include step-by-step instructions for binding, photographic images and x-rays of bound feet and images of some examples of the exquisite and elegant shoes that were made for bound feet. The accompanying book holds an essay addressing the oddity of treating both the functional object (shoes) and specimens of bound feet as collectibles--Artist's statement at the 23 Sandy Gallery Booksellers' website, viewed on September 22, 2015. http://23sandy.com/works/products-page/past-exhibitions/gbw-nw-16-current-show/every-step-a-lotus
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Art/Music has one of nine copies.
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Subject
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Art Media Workroom
N7433.4 .B27 E94 2014
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Footbinding China. ; Shoes China. ; Foot in art. ; Beauty culture in art. ; Body image in art. ; Mothers in art. ; Girls in art. ; Body image in women Social aspects. ; Body marking in art. ; Artists' books Specimens.
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Artists' books Colorado Aurora 2014.r ; Artists' books.
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China.
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Discover UR
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Creator
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Bailey, Alicia, book artist.
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Publisher
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Aurora, Colorado : Ravenpress, 2014
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Format
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16 unnumbered pages, 14 unnumbered leaves : color illustrations ; 6 x 21 cm, in box (8 x 23 x 7 cm)
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Contributor
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Ravenpress, publisher. ; Denver Art Museum ,sponsoring body.
