Untitled (Book of Hours)
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Artist:
Lise Melhorn-Boe
Press: Transformer Press
Document Type: Scroll
Category: With Video
Date: 1995
Dimensions: 28 x 20 x 12 cm
Call Number: N 7433.4 M522 A6 U62 1995
Video:
Direct Video Link
Notes:
Book of Hours seems an appropriate title for this grand, mysterious, majestic book. The book is wrapped in dark brown leather. The image stitched into the leather, which depicts the figure of a woman sculpted into stone, initially seems out of place in this solemn and seemingly masculine wrapping. The significance of this sculpted woman remains elusive until we unfurl the book itself. The book takes the form of a lengthy scroll, composed of various pieces of stitched-together leather, biblical quotations, and images of religious women from ancient to modern times. Part of the text details the God of Israel’s wrath over worshippers of false gods, and, more importantly, worshippers of a false female god. The fact that the handle on the left is a simple bone, whereas the handle on the right is an ornate combination of decorated wood and silk, suggests that the book moves us through the passage of time as we read from left to right, and as we progress from images of ferociously powerful-looking women to the final image, that of Adam and Eve.
Text record edited by Silvia Russell at 2010-04-13 11:07:10
Press: Transformer Press
Document Type: Scroll
Category: With Video
Date: 1995
Dimensions: 28 x 20 x 12 cm
Call Number: N 7433.4 M522 A6 U62 1995
Video:
Direct Video Link
Notes:
Book of Hours seems an appropriate title for this grand, mysterious, majestic book. The book is wrapped in dark brown leather. The image stitched into the leather, which depicts the figure of a woman sculpted into stone, initially seems out of place in this solemn and seemingly masculine wrapping. The significance of this sculpted woman remains elusive until we unfurl the book itself. The book takes the form of a lengthy scroll, composed of various pieces of stitched-together leather, biblical quotations, and images of religious women from ancient to modern times. Part of the text details the God of Israel’s wrath over worshippers of false gods, and, more importantly, worshippers of a false female god. The fact that the handle on the left is a simple bone, whereas the handle on the right is an ornate combination of decorated wood and silk, suggests that the book moves us through the passage of time as we read from left to right, and as we progress from images of ferociously powerful-looking women to the final image, that of Adam and Eve.
Text record edited by Silvia Russell at 2010-04-13 11:07:10
