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Wants & needs : minors in US custody / Aileen Bassis.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Artists' Books Folio Artists' Books 230
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bassis, Aileen, book artist.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Artists' books.
- Bassis, Aileen.
- Noncitizen children--Abuse of--United States.
- Noncitizen children.
- Noncitizen children--Health and hygiene--United States.
- Artists' books--Queens--New York--21st century.
- United States--Social conditions--21st century.
- United States.
- artists' books (books).
- Social conditions.
- Genre:
- artists' books (books)
- Specimens.
- Artists' books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 volume (54 unnumbered pages) : color illustrations ; 28 cm + 1 folder (31 x 14 cm)
- Other Title:
- Wants and needs : minors in United States custody
- Place of Publication:
- [Queens, New York] : [Aileen Bassis], [2019]
- Summary:
- "A 54 page book that explores our government's treatment of migrant children in US custody, and the recent Flores vs. Barr court decision. It's an intimate, small-scale work with pages that can be combined in different ways"--Artists' web site.
- Notes:
- Title from cover.
- Issued in an edition of 20 copies, numbered by artist.
- Issued in hand cut and folded archival folder with title variant and artist signature in black marker on cover.
- Pages are cut in middle so they can be opened and combined with other page parts.
- Local Notes:
- Stitch bound with stiff paper wrappers.
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Ruth and Marvin Sackner Fund for the Arts of the Contemporary Book.
- OCLC:
- 1138947195
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