Composition goldBA-87University of Richmond Book Arts Studioarchives@richmond.eduThis finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2025-10-16 07:03:32 -0400.Description is written in: English, Latin script.University of Richmond Book Arts StudioComposition goldPassenger Pigeon PressNguyen, Tammy, 1984-Beer, Téa ChaiKeum, Tae-Yeoun, 1986-Valenzuela, Rodrigo, 1982-BA-87/repositories/6/resources/1462 Volumes2 volumes (1 unnumbered folded sheet, 23 page booklet) : black and white photographs15 cm2021"This issue of Martha's Quarterly, Issue 20, Summer 2021, Composition Gold, brings together an essay by classicist Tae-Yeoun Keum and photographs by artist Rodrigo Valenzuela to explore questions of nobility and class, labor and imagination, and fate and agency. I was inspired when I listened to someone talk about the noble lie, a kind of myth often told by the elite or ruling class of a society that is meant to maintain social harmony. In monarchies and caste system societies, the noble lie is essential to keeping people spread across different classes, in their place and seldom questioning their situation. Today, many democratic societies also use a noble lie that many accept: "meritocracy," i.e. the idea that one is rewarded and can move between classes as a result of one's hard work and talent." -- publisher's website, viewed August 11, 2022.RBR copy is 46 of 200 numbered copies."Martha's Quarterly, Issue 20, Summer 2021. Composition Gold was printed using black and white photocopy on 20 lb. text weight paper. The silver laborer was laser-cut from silver Stardream cardstock. The metal leaf is gilded composition gold. Gill Sans font was used throughout in various sizes and styles. Tae-Yeoun Keum's text, Born-Again. Citizens in the Myth of Metals was excerpted from the article Plato's Myth of Er and the Reconfiguration of Nature, published in American Political Science Review, 2020. We reprinted it with permission from Cambridge University Press."--ColophonEnglish
Scope and Contents
[Editor's introduction]
Tammy Nguyen -- Born-Again Citizens in the Myth of Metals
Tae-Yeoun Keum -- [photographs]
Rodrigo Valenzuela
Nobility in artSocial classes in artArtists' BooksSpecimens