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...book by its cover” takes on a whole new meaning in the artwork on display in Mather House’s Three Columns Gallery. “Books!” showcases an extensive sampling of the work of local artists Laura Davidson, Mary McCarthy and Donald Shambroom...
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...
...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...
...Within a period of 12 hours, I went from my home in Brooklyn to the midst of a ship And I said to myself, 'What am I doing here? I am a Harvard student?,'" says Shambroom, who had volunteered to serve with a friend from Dunster after seeing an advertisement in the New Yorker magazine...
...like his classmates, Shambroom, a retired advertising executive living in Teaneck, N.J., says he quickly adapted to fighting in the war, says that his Harvard education allowed him to continue his post-graduation plans...