X-ray song
Artist's Book
1991 (published)
1991 (published)
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John Paul Bichard is an artist who has worked in a variety of media including photography, games, digital media and installation as well as artists' books and multiples. This bookwork was produced at the beginning of his artistic career at a time when he was undergoing treatment for cancer. Bichard uses this experience as a source of inspiration for his work. 'X-ray song' is a book containing a fold-out poem in three parts and a silk-screened photo collage recounting an experience with radiotherapy. The book is presented in a deluxe box inlaid with a copy of the C.A.T. scan of the artist's thorax and abdomen and a portion of a stitch from the surgery he underwent. The use of highly personal material brings the viewer very close to his own harrowing experience of living with and overcoming this illness.
Object details
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| Title | X-ray song (published title) |
| Materials and techniques | Printed book |
| Brief description | Artist's book, 'X-Ray Song', by John Paul Bichard, Ultraluxe Publications, London, 1991 |
| Physical description | Artist's book presented in a box containing a signed copy of the 'X-ray song' book, one copy of a C.A.T. scan of the artist's thorax and abdomen and a genuine portion of the monofilament stitch that sutured his abdomen in the operation carried out during his cancer treatment. The X-ray song book unfolds from a central double-page black and white image of a man's torso. The pages are stitched through along the central spine of the volume and unfold at each side to reveal the X-ray song and a magnified colour image of blood cells. NAL copy is no. 4 in a limited edition of 120 copies, the first 20 of which are specially bound, signed by the artist and presented in a deluxe box. 8 leaves. |
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| Summary | John Paul Bichard is an artist who has worked in a variety of media including photography, games, digital media and installation as well as artists' books and multiples. This bookwork was produced at the beginning of his artistic career at a time when he was undergoing treatment for cancer. Bichard uses this experience as a source of inspiration for his work. 'X-ray song' is a book containing a fold-out poem in three parts and a silk-screened photo collage recounting an experience with radiotherapy. The book is presented in a deluxe box inlaid with a copy of the C.A.T. scan of the artist's thorax and abdomen and a portion of a stitch from the surgery he underwent. The use of highly personal material brings the viewer very close to his own harrowing experience of living with and overcoming this illness. |
| Other number | X920030 - NAL Pressmark |
| Collection | |
| Library number | 38041992103564 |
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| Record created | February 6, 2014 |
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