Politics

Lucha por la vida=Struggle for life

Ral Veroni. Lucha por la vida=Struggle for life. Rosendale, NY: Women’s Studio Workshop, 2000.

Maureen Cummins. Stocks and bonds. Riverdale, MD: M. Cummins (while in residence at Pyramid Atlantic), 2000.]

John Risseeuw, John Eric Nolt and Beauvais Lyons. Roadkill. [Knoxville, TN: s.n.], [2001].

Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr. Mask. [Bloomington, IN: A.P. Kennedy, Jr., 2000].

In Stocks & bonds Maureen Cummins investigates the meaning of words related to human subjugation within the context of market economies. To do this she reproduces images of slavery and torture reproduced from a trading firm’s ledger books. Another artist’s book on the topic of economics, Lucha por la vida = Struggle for life is about the devaluation of currency. The artist, Ral Veroni, mocks the inflated economies of Latin American countries and uses actual pieces of paper money as the page surface on which to draw.

In Roadkill the artists cleverly juxtapose statistical information regarding Americans’ automoblie habits and their effect on the environment, not incidentally and literally using roadkill (a found snake was used as a printing matrix) for the cover decoration.

The thick, unreadable overprintings of large type elements in Amos Kennedy’s Mask are a tactile illustration of his text, revealed at the end of the book, on concealed identity.