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035 $a(OCoLC)1257416168
050 4 $aN7433.4.M357$bT47 2021
049 $aZCUA
100 1 $aMaret, Russell,$ebook artist.
245 10 $aThree Constitutions /$cRussell Maret.
264 1 $aNew York :$bRussell Maret,$c2021.
300 $a3 volumes ;$c26-37 cm, in box 40 x 29 x 7 cm +$e1 booklet (8 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 23 cm)
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
500 $aTitle and imprint from prospectus.
500 $aThree separate volumes housed in a three-tray drop-spine case with printed paper label on spine. The largest volume is housed in a vitrine. Accompanied by prospectus.
520 $a"Three Constitutions is my response to [political events of November 2020-February 2021] and the culture that bred them. The large volume contains the full text of the Constitution and its twenty-seven amendments. It is set in a typeface that, though difficult to read, is legible once one becomes accustomed to its forms. The texts of the two smaller volumes were arrived at via the most prevalent modes of constitutional interpretation: algorithmic skewing and selective redaction. The text of the volume titled Constitution. United States. was arrived at by feeding the Constitution and amendments through Google Translate. The text was first translated from English into Esperanto, then from Esperanto into Russian, Russian into Chinese, and Chinese back into English. Esperanto was chosen to represent the Utopian ideals of America's founders; Russian and Chinese to reference two of the primary disseminators of the internet-borne disinformation that has taken such firm root among Trump loyalists. The volume titled Constitution [redacted] was set in metal type, and subsequently redacted by physically turning key words and phrases over and printing the underside of the type. The resulting text is not the hopeful re-write I would conceive; it is intended to reflect the cynical, ineffectual state of political discourse in the United States"--From colophon.
500 $a"Three Constitutions was designed by Russell Maret and printed by him and Sarah Moody between November 2020 and February 2021 ... Ninety copies were printed, of which eighty-seven are numbered and three are proofs. All of the typefaces were designed by Russell Maret. The papers are Zerkall Book and Twinrocker Handmade. Amy Borezo designed and executed the binding at Shelter Bookworks"--Colophon.
500 $aRare Book copy: No. 31$5NNC
610 10 $aUnited States.$tConstitution.
651 0 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y2017-2021.
650 0 $aTransmission of texts$zUnited States.
650 0 $aGraphic design (Typography)$xPolitical aspects.
650 0 $aArtists' books$zNew York (State)$zNew York.
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650 7 $aTransmission of texts.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01154863
651 7 $aNew York (State)$zNew York.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01204333
651 7 $aUnited States.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01204155
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653 $aUnited States$aConstitution$aVersions$aConstitutional interpretation
655 7 $aalterations (object components)$2aat$0(CStmoGRI)aatgf300055457
655 7 $aArtists' books.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01750153
655 7 $aArtists' books.$2lcgft
655 7 $aAltered texts.$2local
655 7 $aRedacted texts.$2local
655 7 $aPaper evidence (Paper)$xZerkall Book.$2rbpap
655 7 $aPaper evidence (Paper)$xTwinrocker Handmade.$2rbpap
700 1 $aMoody, Sarah,$d1982-$eprinter.
700 1 $aBorezo, Amy,$ebinding designer,$ebinder.
710 2 $aShelter Bookworks,$ebinder.
710 12 $iContainer of (work):$aUnited States.$tConstitution.
740 02 $aConstitution.
740 02 $aConstitution. United States.
740 02 $aConstitution [redacted].
852 $brbx$gIn Process$zShelved at: 15484790 13V