Site.BA-60University of Richmond Book Arts Studioarchives@richmond.eduThis finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2025-10-16 07:03:18 -0400.Description is written in: English, Latin script.University of Richmond Book Arts StudioSite.Harris, Lyall F.BA-60/repositories/6/resources/1191 Volumes29 cm2018"What happened, reader, where you are? What happens there today? asks the artists' book Site. Inspired by her discovery of a slave auction block on the first morning in her new town of Charlottesville, VA, Lyall Harris grapples with US history in a project where content is revealed and supported through its material components. With assistance from papermaker Dieu Donné, Harris created a watermark broadside, the key component of an artists' book that both points to the past and brings the reader into an awareness of present"--Vamp & Tramp, Booksellers website.Rare Book Room copy is 7 of 50. Title from cover. Imprint from colophon. "With custom-made papers from Dieu Donné and gratitute to Tatiana Ginsberg, Site was printed and assembled in Charlottesville, VA, in 2018 in an edition of [50]. Any artist's proceeds from sales will be donated to the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center in Charlottesville"--Colophon.
Letterpress printed on handmade papers from Dieu Donné. Stiff cover with title, tipped-in, folded broadside with watermark: Slave auction block, on this site slaves were bought and sold.English
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In memory of Christine McGeorge McClintic, treasurer of the RFI/WCR Alumnae 1930-1977.
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