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Object Description
Collection
Otis Library's Artists' Books
Author(s)
McCarney, Scott
Title
Various
fires
and
MLK
Alternate Title(s)
Various
fires
and
Martin
Luther
King
Date
2010
Press(es)
Lulu.com
Visual Books
Physical Description
[19] leaves: ill., port.; 18 cm.
Subject(s)
Race riots -- United States -- Pictorial works
Watts Riot, Los Angeles, Calif., 1965 -- Pictorial works
Description
"
Edward
Ruscha's
second
book
,
Various
Small
Fires
and
Milk
,
(1964)
was
published
in
Los
Angeles
,
California.
It
presents
a
series
of
photographs
of
small
fires--cigarettes
,
matches
, a
stove
, a
barbecue--and
surprises
us with an
unrelated
image
of a
glass
of
milk
as the
last
plate.
Various
Fires
and
MLK
uses
this
book's
time
(1964)
and
place
(Los
Angeles)
as a
point
of
departure.
It
adopts
its
layout
while
subverting
the
droll
collection
of
photographs
and
non-sequetor
coda
by
adopting
images
imbued
with
historic
meaning
: the
Watts
riots
of
1965
; the
aftermath
of
Rodney
King's
beating
in
1991
;
reactions
to the
shooting
death
of
Manual
Jamines
, a
Guatemalan
immigrant
, in
2010.
The
Civil
Rights
Act
, a
landmark
piece
of
legislation
in the
United
States
that
outlawed
major
forms
of
discrimination
including
racial
segregation
, was
passed
in
1964.
The
use
of
MLK's
picture
is
a
typographic
gestalt
of
Ruscha's
title
(MILK/MLK)
, and
is
a
surprise
in this
sequence
considering
his
message
of
nonviolent
civil
disobedience.
It
is
this
disconnect
that
relates
Various
Small
Fires
to the
fires
that
followed."--Scott
McCarney/VisualBooks
website
,
http://www.scottmccarneyvisualbooks.com/Pages/VF%26MLK.html
,
viewed
June
30
,
2011.
"
'Various
fires
and
MLK
' was
produced
by
Visual
Books
in
2010.
It
is
digitally
printed
in an
open
edition
by
Lulu.com"--Colophon.
Photography.
Book Type(s)
Artists' books
Binding
Glued binding
Perfect binding - paper cover with glassine wrapper
Process/Technique
Photography
Description
Collection
Otis Library's Artists' Books
Author(s)
McCarney, Scott
Title
Various
fires
and
MLK
View
Cover
Image Description
The
title
of the
book
"
Various
Fires
and
MLK.
"
ImageID
artb64545A
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