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The book of Dolores / by William T. Vollmann.
Author
Vollmann, William T.
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Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
First edition.
Published/Created
Brooklyn, N.Y. : PowerHouse Books, 2013.
Description
197 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
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Marquand Library - Remote Storage (ReCAP): Marquand Library Use Only
PS3572.O395 Z46 2013
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Portrait photography
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Gender identity in art
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Vollmann, William T.
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Summary note
"William T. Vollmann has travelled to Soviet-occupied Afghanistan with Islamic commandos, shivered out a solitary stretch at the North Magnetic Pole in winter, hopped freight trains, studied the stately ancient beauties of Japanese Noh theater, and made friends with street prostitutes all over the world--all in the interest of learning a little more about life. Now in his mid-fifties, Vollmann sets out on what may well be impossible for a heterosexual genetic male: to envision himself as a woman. In these photographs, block prints, and watercolor drawings, he portrays his alter ego, Dolores, with whimsicality, and sometimes with cruelty--for Dolores would like to be attractive, or at least to 'pass,' but the ageing male body in which she remains confined requires lowered expectations. Meanwhile, the drawings and block prints, composed with the artist's glasses off, show Dolores as she imagines herself to be. The Book of Dolores brings the genre of self-portraits to a new level of vulnerability and bravery. In the process, it offers virtuoso performances of nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first-century photographic techniques, including the seductively difficult gum bichromate method. Each section of the book is accompanied by an essay on motives and techniques."--Flap.
Notes
"Now in his mid-fifties, Vollmann sets out on what may well be impossible for a heterosexual genetic male: to envision himself as a woman. In these photographs, block prints, and watercolor drawings, he portrays his alter ego, Dolores, with whimsicality, and sometimes with cruelty--for Dolores would like to be attractive, or at least to 'pass,' but the ageing male body in which she remains confined requires lowered expectations. Meanwhile, the drawings and block prints, composed with the artist's glasses off, show Dolores as she imagines herself to be. ... Each section of the book is accompanied by an essay on motives and techniques."--Flap.
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Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Constructions. Denial, and other cosmetics ; Practicing and recording, or, Confessions of a lady's tailor ; How you are
Portraits. Laptop photographs ; Mexican watercolor drawings ; Woodblock prints ; Paper negatives ; Silver gelatin positives ; Color film positives ; Gum bichromate prints, or, It will all come off in the clearing bath
End matter. My gum bichromate procedure ; Captions ; Acknowledgements ; Of whichever other innocuous state of being.
ISBN
9781576876572
1576876578
LCCN
2013942850
OCLC
862037563
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