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Collection	Otis Library's Artists' Books
Author(s)	Meador, Clifton
Title	Kora
Date	2007
Press(es)	Binding Desire: Unfolding Artists Books Columbia College (Chicago, Ill.) Purchase College, State University of New York
Physical Description	34 p.: chiefly ill.; 59 x 15 cm. + cloth wrap.
Subject(s)	Books -- Tibet Region Pilgrims and pilgrimages -- Tibet (China) Tibet Autonomous Region (China) -- Religion Wood-engraving, Tibetan -- Printing
Description	34 loose pages stacked as in a traditional Tibetan book structure (similar to a palm leaf format). Cloth covered boards with screen print of the font Meador developed from his photographs of pilgrims taken as they circle the Derge Parkhang. Cover title printed on a cloth inset is also in Meador's font. Wrapped in a Tibetan cloth . "[P]rinted at the Center for Editions, Purchase College, on Mohawk Superfine. The film and separations were produced at the Center for Book & Paper at Columbia College Chicago.... The figures are line drawings from the photographs, now converted into a font, so the pilgrims have literally turned into language, at least in this book"--Colophon . Library's copy is no. 29 of an edition of 50, signed by the artist.
Abstract	Pictures taken at the Dege Parkhang, a printing temple located in Ganze Autonomous Prefecture in western China, in August of 2006. Pilgrims circumambulating the exterior of the temple, some carrying prayer wheels with their mantras spinning into the ether, are performing kora, an act of devotion and honor to the books housed therein.
Book Type(s)	Artists' books
Binding	Loose pages between cloth covered boards, wrapped in cloth

Collection	Otis Library's Artists' Books
Author(s)	Meador, Clifton
Title	Kora
View	Cover
Image Description	The book wrapped in cloth and a card describing the Tibetan printing temple "Derge Parkhang."
ImageID	artb57351A

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