Riverine

Access and use

Location of collection:
University of Richmond
Rare Books and Special Collections
Boatwright Library
University of Richmond
28 Westhampton Way
Richmond, VA 23173
Contact for questions and access:
POC: Lynda Kachurek
Phone: (804) 289-8458
Fax: (804) 287-1840

Summary

Extent:
2 Items
Creator:
White, Sara E. (Sara Elizabeth), 1985-, Alluvium Press, and Small Craft Advisory Press
Abstract:
"RIVERINE is an artist's book and fragmented essay about a riparian landscape in New Orleans, LA called the 'batture.' Accompanied by letterpress printed imagery and textures of industrial structures and nature that inhabit this landscape located between the man-made levee and Mississippi River along the margins of the city, the book's text shifts and flows with each page-turn. It pays homage to communities that have existed on the batture in homes on stilts throughout history and the liminal experience of living in a place that is neither water nor solid ground, undefinable and always changing"--Vamp and Tramp Booksellers website, viewed October 28, 2016. "The photographs in this book were originally printed in These Were Our Homes, a pamphlet written and compiled by Elizabeth Cousins Rogers in New Orleans, 1954, in an effort to publicize the unjust destruction of homes along the batture. Much of the information in RIverine came from the Batture Dwellers Association Records 1949-1958, Howard Tilton Memorial Library Special Collections, Tulane University"--Inside of chemise.
Language:
English

Background

Acquisition information:
Gift of Westhampton College Class of 1943.
Physical description:
Six-panel accordion-folded book with sewn gatherings in valleys of 4 folds. Printed 8-color letterpress on handmade cotton/abaca paper. Laid in letterpress printed chemise of cloth over boards. Issued in slipcase.
Physical facet:
1 volume with slipcase : includes illustrations
Dimensions:
21 cm
Material specific details:
"Riverine was letterpress printed and bound using handmade cotton-abaca paper during an artist's residency at Small Craft Advisory Press in Tallahassee, Florida by Sara White, MFA candidate in Book Arts at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa"--Colophon. Rare Book Room copy is 7 of 35.