Censored Book
Barton Lidice Benes
26.7 x 20.3 12.7
1974
Book Tied in Rope, nailed, gessoed and painted
“I was once on a train to Philadelphia reading a biography of Nixon, and I started scratching it out as I read it, and by the time I got to Philadelphia I had scratched the whole book out. After that I started nailing books shut and tying them up.”
The piece appeared in the 1990 traveling exhibition Book Arts in the USA curated by Richard Minsky.
Thanks to Deeplinking and his post Book Art All-Stars