The Girl Who Liked to Read
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DETAILS
Artist:
Lise Melhorn-Boe
Press: Transformer Press
Document Type: Flag Book
Category: With Video
Date: 2007
Dimensions: 22.5 x 20.5 x 5 cm
Call Number: N 7433.4 M52 A6 G57 2007
Video:
Direct Video Link
Notes:
This flag book unfolds like an accordion. It comprises colour copies from book covers, ink drawings, and text (with a story and lists of book titles) on cotton rag paper. The book comes in a vibrant red box. The best way to read this book is to open it on a table, which allows the reader to walk around and peer into each flag of the book. As we read the separate flags, which break the book covers and text into fragments, we piece together the narrator’s experience of books. The story is about a girl who loves to read and how she does so everywhere — in libraries and school, in trees, and in the bathroom. The lists of books that intermingle with the storyline not only tell us what the narrator has read, they also indicate that books have provided pleasure through fiction, as well as support and guidance through breast cancer, death, and into environmental activism.
Text record edited by Silvia Russell at 2010-04-13 10:53:15
Press: Transformer Press
Document Type: Flag Book
Category: With Video
Date: 2007
Dimensions: 22.5 x 20.5 x 5 cm
Call Number: N 7433.4 M52 A6 G57 2007
Video:
Direct Video Link
Notes:
This flag book unfolds like an accordion. It comprises colour copies from book covers, ink drawings, and text (with a story and lists of book titles) on cotton rag paper. The book comes in a vibrant red box. The best way to read this book is to open it on a table, which allows the reader to walk around and peer into each flag of the book. As we read the separate flags, which break the book covers and text into fragments, we piece together the narrator’s experience of books. The story is about a girl who loves to read and how she does so everywhere — in libraries and school, in trees, and in the bathroom. The lists of books that intermingle with the storyline not only tell us what the narrator has read, they also indicate that books have provided pleasure through fiction, as well as support and guidance through breast cancer, death, and into environmental activism.
Text record edited by Silvia Russell at 2010-04-13 10:53:15
