University Art Museum at New Mexico State University
Las Cruces, New Mexico
Serving as an academic environment for the critical analysis of visual art in southern New Mexico.
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- Tim Ahern Philip Zimmermann
- The Rusty Plate, 1979
- Artist's Book
- 8 x 5.5 in (20.32 x 13.97 cm)
- Signature: Verso of second page, in ink, bottom center by both artist.
- Inv: 2003.01.01
Description: Hardcover, signed & numbered with audio cassette (meant to play while the book was being read). Comic book style layout with hand-lettered the text and graphic images of U.S. Government nuclear testing from the fifties behind the text and as the end sheets. The cover of the cassette and the book is a silkscreen image of a closeup of willow leaves. The story is about nuclear meltdowns รก la Three Mile Island.
Object dimensions: [96], col., ill. and text; 8" x 5 1/2"
- Collections: Modern and Contemporary Art Collection, Paper Works
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