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Collection	Otis Library's Artists' Books
Author(s)	Graham, Brandon
Title	Tear here
Date	2007
Press(es)	Columbia College (Chicago, Ill.)
Physical Description	[48] p. : col. ill. ; 17 x 15 cm.
Subject(s)	Amputees Iraq War, 2003- Military uniforms in art War in art War wounds Women soldiers -- United States
Description	Cover title . "Written, designed and produced by Brandon Graham at CCCCBPA [Columbia College Chicago Center for Book and Paper Arts]"--Colophon Page count includes stubs . Artist's statement: "Tear Here started with taking a set of military uniforms, cutting off the arms and legs, and lashing them back together with red thread. Then I took digital images, tore at the seams, and visually documented the seams ripping apart. Using the structural vocabulary of the codex, Tear Here explores the ways in which the conflict in Iraq tears away at the bodies and the lives of those soldiers who serve in the U.S. military"--Vamp & Tramp, Booksellers' website . "Designed in InDesign, and printed on a Color Laser Jet on linen-textured paper. Some pages altered with a perforator and then sewn on a sewing machine. Bound with a chain-stitch, but not cased in so that the spine is exposed. The statistics are accurate, the narrative fictional. Written, designed, and produced by Graham."--Vamp & Tramp, Booksellers' website Coptic binding with sewing exposed . Computer application . Laser printing . Adobe InDesign.
Abstract	Text consists of a short fictional story about a woman who lost part of her arm while serving in the U.S. Army during the Iraq War juxtaposed with facts and statistics about the Iraq War, amputation and dismemberment resulting from military conflict, and modern warfare.
Book Type(s)	Artists' books
Binding	Coptic binding - board cover Exposed spine binding Sewn fold binding pasted into paper covered boards
Process/Technique	Adobe InDesign Computer application Laser printing

Collection	Otis Library's Artists' Books
Author(s)	Graham, Brandon
Title	Tear here
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