Recipes for Disaster
- Digital Letterpress, Single Section Book on Artist Made Paper
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8.5 x 5.5 in
(21.59 x 13.97 cm)
- Eric Avery
Thank you to Benjamin J. Dineen III and Dennis C. Hull for the generous donation of this work.
Printed for Philagrafika – The Graphic Unconscious 2011. Printed by Mark Attwood, The Artist's Press, South Africa
Artist Statement/Description of Work:
"This single section pamphlet stitched booklet on artist made paper is a companion piece to Paradise Lost and part of Eric Avery’s work for Philagrafika – The Graphic Unconscious.
These recipes are not prescriptions for health and wellbeing. They are chimeric fables mixing animals, humans and germs in ways that have produced history-changing plagues and incalculable misery and death. Each Rxcipe is followed by an application meant to teach a lesson about the origin of infectious diseases and about our lives with animals.
Rxcipes for Disaster are:
-Conquest of the Americas ( Smallpox)
-Bush Meat Stew (HIV/AIDS)
- Cassoulet of Pork and Lamb in Beef or Chicken Broth (Influenza)
- Flight Avian Flu ( any airborne infectious diseases)"
- Edition: of 100
- Created: 2011
- Current Location: Gabert Library, 71 Sip Avenue - Foundation Archive
- Collections: Art that Includes Writing, New Jersey Artists, Prints and Editions, Works by Men