Expurgated

Expurgated

United Nations. General Assembly. Universal Declaration Of Human Rights

Arts--Censorship

Human Rights In Literature

Artists' Books--Belgium--Specimens

Words In Art

Human Rights In Art

Written in both French and English, this book includes a tea bag containing slivers of Articles 1-3 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Reflecting the title, images of a crane in a strip mined landscape appear around a pyramid also containing the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The pyramid, taken as an ancient monument for the foundation of society, is being removed. Is the tea bag is a way to let those rights seep back into our lives, or are the slivers a byproduct of destruction?

Inscription: Signed by artist on front cover flap in pencil and numbered.

Colophon reads: ...Universal Declaration of Human Rights printed with edible coloring, on edible paper and pulped. Tea, natural flavouring. Store in a dark and dry place.

Edition 280:300

Kermaire, Christine

Self-published

Charleroi, Belgium

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Structure/Folds: unbound work. Issued in resealable plastic bag.

Dimensions: 10 x 15 x 1 cm (closed), 8 x 11 x 11 cm (constructed pyramid)

artists' books (books)

Twenty-first century (dates CE)

2013

The original object was photographed with a NIKON D300 digital camera at 300 ppi as a JPEG file format. The JPEG file was then modified in Adobe Photoshop.

Photographer Marie A. Andrews

6 total views: front view, interior view, overhead view