Cover title.

Imprint date from box.

"A collaborative project of collected stories, rumors, little known facts or folktales about artists and designers."--Box inner lid.

Project based on exhibition: Van Gogh's ear and other art stories. Cf. information leaf.

Contributors: Robert Brinkerhoff, Memphis, Tennessee, Harvey Kaner, Los Angeles, California, Jim Walker, Chicago, Illinois, Jacob Livshultz, New York, New York, Maria Rougal, Richmond, Virginia, Alexsandra Sukhoy, Chicago, Illinois. Book Arts Grant: Women's Studio Workshop.

"Supported in part with public funds from the Women's Studio Workshop and the New York State Council on the Arts."--Box.

Designed so that the reader/viewer interacts with text that has been communicated through "word of mouth", in a symbolic way of "hanging out the dirty laundry." Cf. information leaf.

Contains twelve "sheets" of unbleached muslin (12 x 8 cm), with text printed in black; 12 wooden spring clothes pins; 1 piece of string (148 cm). Objects, along with information leaf, rest within a brown cardboard box.

Issued in a limited edition of 125 numbered copies.

LC has copy number 56.

Description and digital images of this object available on the Women's Studio Workshop Archive website: http://www.wsworkshop.org/archive_item.php?ID=194