Box 100
Container
Contains 1 Result:
For Adults Only (The Art Book - Passion Plays and Amourous Spells), 1996
Item — Box: 100
Identifier: CC-28807-30122
Scope and Contents
Sandra Jackman writes to the Sackners that this piece was inspired by her Hungarian grandmother who always told her, "To read is to want to know." She hid candy and books in the second drawer of her bureau, where Jackman would forage. "I was grown before I realized that I had been seduced into becoming a reader. In Europe, the rabbis would drip honey on scripture written on slate for the young students to lick off after they repeated the lesson...This early freedom to investigate any form of reading material, to appease my curiosity is the inspiration for Adults Only, a book within a book. My grandmother's bureau is transformed into a dollhouse cupboard and collaged with scraps of printed matter. Its shelves are filled with treasures. This is the centerpiece for a triptych (a style usually reserved for religious images). The front left wing refers to a myth. The fellow with the flute to his lips is from a painting by Perugino. Marsyas the Satyr is showing off his talent to the God...
Dates:
1996