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Telling Stories: Exploring Book Arts

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Kitty Maryatt & 10 female students

Arch, 2010

 

Paper, thread, letterpress

Edition of 109; Scripps College Press, Claremont, CA

TSCPL Permanent Collection

 

On January 7, 2010, just days before class was to start, the Los Angeles Times published a fascinating article on contemporary women architects, highlighting a striking building by Jeannie Gang. Earlier this year, the brand new President of Scripps College chose the Genius of Women as her inaugural theme. What serendipity! This gave us the perfect inspiration

for our artist book: the genius of women architects. After extensive research and class discussion, a mission statement for the book evolved: Architecture, like books, is a delicate balancing act between stability and motion, interior and exterior, aesthetic values and structural practicalities. Books, like buildings, are fundamentally inhabited spaces. They are

incomplete without human interaction.

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