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Title
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Ladies first / Keith Smith.
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Description
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Book number 288 Keith Smith 2013. ; Publication date from publisher's Web site, viewed March 9, 2017. ; VSW Press is honored to have reproduced a rare 'trade' edition of Keith Smith's one of a kind book Ladies First, his 288th title, from 2013--Publisher's website, September 30, 2019. ; Consists of a single sheet accordion-folded to form 34 leaves. Issued in a custom box (43 x 24 x 7 cm) with illustrated lid. ; One of Smith's great subjects over the years has been the male form rendered in a perfectly fine and sinuous drawn line. Frequently bringing together drawing with photography in his work ... another of Smith's tropes ... is the use of transparent material, film positives, as pages. Hand cutting various shapes directly out of the page created yet another form of window to reveal parts of other pages as one read ... the subjects of Ladies First are anonymous to Smith and any see-through parts are the work of digital tools ... Smith works here with images found online that he virtually draws on, paints, and sculpts rendering them his, originally. In Ladies First, Smith is in dialog with the history of art, although in his own distinctive way. The female subjects of formal 18th and 19th Century portraits take younger, wax chested male lovers or transition into men. This references both the practice of exclusively using male models for female subjects until the 19th C as well as our more recent recognition of those of us who are transgender--Publisher's website, September 30, 2019.
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Subject
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Art Media Workroom
N7433.4 .S65 L24 2016
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Gender identity in art. ; Body image in art. ; Erotic art. ; Art History Pictorial works. ; Women Portraits. ; Men Portraits. ; Altered paintings Specimens. ; Artists' books Specimens. ; Altered paintings. ; Art. ; Artists' books. ; Men. ; Women.
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History. ; Pictorial works. ; Portraits. ; Specimens ; Accordion fold format (Binding)
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Discover UR
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Creator
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Smith, Keith A., 1938- book artist.
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Publisher
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Rochester, N.Y. : Visual Studies Workshop Press, 2016
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Format
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1 volume (unpaged) : portraits, color illustrations ; 33 cm
