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Lisa Rosowsky ~ Massachusetts
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| About: “Lisa Rosowsky is a tenured professor at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, where she teaches communication design, typography, and book design. She earned her AB from Harvard College and an MFA in Graphic Design from Yale University. Her mixed-media work focusing on the Holocaust and family trauma and history has been exhibited nationally, and her artists books are in the permanent collections of the Boston Public Library, Wellesley College, Stanford University, Harvard University, University of Vermont, and the Museum of Printing.” |
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Sauf Conduit
By Lisa Rosowsky
Boston, Massachusetts: Lisa Rosowsky, 2024. Edition of 12.
8" × 12.5". Typeset in Halyard and Chandler 42. Printed digitally and through risograph on Neenah paper. Includes multi-color risograph prints, as well as foldouts, insertions, and a removable etched linoleum stamp. . Bound in Brillianta book cloth with a metal post binding. Laid in a trompe l’oeil French biscuit box. Signed and numbered by the artist. Written, designed, printed, and bound by Rosowsky.
Lisa Rosowsky: "'Sauf Conduit' tells the little-known story of the document forgers of occupied France during World War II. Young and inexperienced—some only teenagers—these members of the French Resistance worked clandestinely to create dossiers of forged papers that helped save the lives of thousands attempting to flee the country.
"This artists’ book by Lisa Rosowsky is the result of research, travel, and interviews with some of those who knew the forgers personally. It features the voices of two prominent French document forgers, along with the fascinating history of how they adapted existing printing methods—and sometimes invented new ones—to achieve amazing and convincing results."
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Blood Libel
By Lisa Rosowsky
Boston, Massachusetts: Lisa Rosowsky, 2015. Edition of 20.
8.625 x 9"; 22 pages. Typeset in Klinic Slab, Tanach, and TheSans. Printed digitally on Mohawk Superfine paper. Case bound in Asahi book cloth. Jacket laser cut into Mohawk Loop paper. In custom laser engraved acrylic slipcase. Designed, written, and bound by Lisa Rosowsky. Numbered.
Lisa Rosowsky: "Blood Libel looks at a story as old as history: that Jews ritually sacrifice Christians—particularly children—to use their blood for Passover matzah and other religious purposes.
This artist's book by designer and studio artist Lisa Rosowsky recounts seven of the most well-documented accusations of blood libel, dating from as far back as 39 AD and as recent as 1946. Selected excerpts from primary sources and reproductions of period art and photographs, combined with engaging summaries of each of the cases, weave a centuries-long narrative of suspicion, misunderstanding, and hate."
Ruth R. Rogers, Curator of Special Collections, Wellesley College: "Rosowsky’s illumination of past transgressions based on hate and fear is as timely and disturbing now as ever. Through her unfolding design narrative, historical imagery, and vivid contemporary accounts, she has produced a memorial and a warning—an artists’ book with universal social significance that belongs in every academic library.”
The seven tales from Blood Libel begin with the Egyptian-born historian Apion, who recounts in Aegyptiaca a story about Antiochus discovering a man imprisoned in the Temple being fattened up for sacrifice by the Jews and ends with the story of the Kielce Pogrom (Poland) in 1946.
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Page last update: 09.19.2024
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