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Davidson and McCarthy are self-described “book-artists,” and Shambroom is a painter and sculptor. Book-art is difficult to define with any precision, and thus is probably best defined through example. As the exhibit’s statement puts it, the exhibit consists of “Boxes of painted panels, vertical and horizontal scrolls, accordians, stand-up books that open like doors, pop-up books presenting architectural models, and sculpture using books as a material, like marble or clay...
...Books!” marks both a celebration and an exploration of the potential for books to be a physical and artistic enterprise, as opposed to their traditional literary purpose. If there is one underlying theme to the whole exhibit, it is perhaps to examine—and turn on its heels—the relationship of cover and content, of what is seen and what is read...
...particular note in the exhibit are two sculpures by Shambroom. The first, “Those who go II,” consists of several stacks of Sir Walter Scott’s “Waverly Novels”—essentially tales of British people killing each other, the most famous of which is “Ivanhoe”—with a large crater on the top, into which juts the hilt of a knife adjacent to a bullet. The other sculpture, labeled as being part of the Forgotten Writer Series, celebrates forgotten writer...
...point of this exhibit is not to say that Palestinian children are suffering and Israeli children are not because Israeli children are suffering in deeply disturbing ways,” Arafah said. “The point is to reveal the often overlooked reality of life as a Palestinian child under Israeli occupation...
When Yasmin K. Bin-Human ’03 forwarded an advertisement for the exhibit to the Eliot House e-mail list, several students turned the discussion from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict’s effect on children to the conflict itself...