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Not a Straight Line

Item date(s): 2011

Emily Martin


Pages: unpaged
Size: 178mm
Inscription: Signed by the artist
Edition: #12/20


Place publication: Iowa City, IO
Publisher: Naughty Dog Press
Cat. 141 - C8-8
Exhibition 2017

Additional notes:
Ten small books (5 x 5cm) sewn together and housed in a beige duckram drop-back box held closed with an elastic band. They unfold to make a crocked street.

This book was made for the Al-Mutanabbi Street Artists' Book project. The project aims to "re-assemble" some of the "inventory" of the reading material that was lost in the car bombing of al-Mutanabbi Street. To read the book viewers must find their way along the linked books that turn this way and that way much as a meandering street would.

Exhibition notes:
Item 0141 - C8-8 on Booknesses: Artists' books from the Jack Ginsberg Collection.

UJ Art Gallery, University of Johannesburg

25 March to 5 May 2017

Faces, Spaces and Tenuous Places

JBCBA, WAM

6 February – 13 May 2024



Ref: GB/13771











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