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Psalm Of Aisha / Rachael Romero., 1986

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Identifier: CC-53665-50838

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Scope and Contents

This book uses a sufi text with repetitive images of rubberstamped hands. Rachael Romero left Australia as a teen, eventually choosing to live and work in NY. Since the 1970's Romero has worked with printmaking, public art, mass installation, performance, film, video, painting and drawing. Many of her posters are in the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, and the Cooper Hewitt Museum, NY, MOMA, NY; The Oakland Museum, among others. Artists books by Rachael Romero (Rabyaashki is Romero's sufi name) are hand-made, with found and fine papers and are mostly unique (some few are in small but not identical editions) and were made in the 1980's. While studying Sufi calligraphic texts in the late 80's and early 1990's, Romero made a number of books as a way to assimilate the material. Romero also made books using materials from her creative process and in response to nature. She has made a handful of books incorporating students' art, to give people a "voice" otherwise not available to them ie: LIFE, with Angel Amerat was made in an edition of 100 with a grant from the NYFA; Blind Sight by Dr Marco Bitetto and Gregory's Indications I and II. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates

  • Creation: 1986

Creator

Extent

0 See container summary (1 book object (3 pages, handmade paper, rubberstamped) in front cover (handmade paper, rubberstamped, collaged, gold-leaf); back cover (handmade paper board); page (fold-out)) ; 27 x 36 cm

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Physical Location

flat files

Custodial History

The Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry, on loan from Ruth and Marvin A. Sackner and the Sackner Family Partnership.

General

Published: New York : [Publisher not identified]. Signed by: R. Romero (r.c.- first page). Nationality of creator: Australian-American. General: About 1 total copies. General: Added by: CONV; updated by: MARVIN.

Repository Details

Part of the The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry Repository

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