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Stories behind bars / created by Tona Wilson.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wilson, Tona.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Immigrants in art.
- Prisoners--Legal status, laws, etc--United States.
- Prisoners.
- Prisoners--Legal status, laws, etc.
- Artists' books.
- United States.
- Immigrants--Government policy--United States.
- Immigrants.
- Immigrants--Government policy.
- United States--Emigration and immigration--Government policy.
- Emigration and immigration.
- Government policy.
- Artists' books--New York (State).
- New York (State).
- Physical Description:
- 4 volumes : color illustrations ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Rosendale, N.Y. : Womens' Studio Workshop, [2010]
- Contents:
- In jail tonight
- Being removed
- Clippings for Amalia
- Acronyms and sketches.
- Notes:
- Title from colophon in Acronyms & sketches.
- Limited ed. of 50 copies.
- "Stories Behind Bars was inspired by the author's job as a Spanish interpreter in the US courts. It consists of four individually bound silkscreen printed booklets: in one, a young man is deported using video teleconferencing, another gives some brief history of immigration detention, and all tell stories of immigrants in U.S. prisons and jails. The stories give the reader an insight into the complex issues surrounding the immigration debate. The four separate pamphlets are housed in a slipcase with a barred window. Silkscreen printed."--Womens' Studio Workshop website, http://wsworkshop.org/ , viewed October 29, 2010.
- "Stories Behind Bars is a book in four parts. They are: In Jail Tonight, Being Removed, Clippings for Amalia, and Acronyms and Sketches. The book is silk screen printed on Stonehenge warm white and Dur-O-Tone papers."--Colophon, found in Acronyms & Sketches.
- Local Notes:
- The four individual parts are single, sewn signatures in a gray cloth-covered slipcase. The front of the slip case is cut out, with black bars underneath, to resemble a jail cell. The illustration of a prisoner (found on the back cover of each of the booklets) appears through the bars.
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- Penn Libraries Rare copy is no. 23 of 50. In slipcase.
- Contains:
- In jail tonight.
- Being removed.
- Clippings for Amalia.
- Acronyms & sketches.
- ISBN:
- 189312570X
- 9781893125704
- OCLC:
- 673417602
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