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Litkus Press
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Illustrated History No. 14
By Mariona Barkus
Los Angeles, California: Litkus Press, 2009. Edition of 200.
7.25" x 5.5"; 8 black and white postcards. Offset postcard folio.
Mariona Barkus: "Since its inception in 1981, my Illustrated History series has chronicled some of the comic absurdities of contemporary American life in the form of postcard folios, broadsides, and poster installations.
"As in all 13 earlier editions, the stories are true, the illustrations are constructs. Issues explored - suspension of habeas corpus by the Military Commissions Act, USDA renames 'hunger' as 'low food security,' No Child Left Behind narrows school curriculums, disillusionment with over-consumption, nanoparticles in the environment, hate groups increase in number, the demise of the penny, The World Institute of Slowness advocates mindful living."
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Generations
a fictional family history
By Mariona Barkus
Los Angeles, California: Litkus Press, 1984. Edition of 20.
3.75 x 3.75"; 16 pages. Signed and numbered. In matching envelope. Produced as part of an artist in residence program at the Women's Graphic Center in Los Angeles, which is funded in part by NEA.
This "fictional family history" unfolds so that three pages are always on display. The opening page of six postage stamp sized photographs remains constant throughout the telling of tales. The stories are juxtaposed with these postage stamp sized snapshots. The stories explore what Barkus calls the "archetypal women within me."
Mariona Barkus: "These are stories my mother told me as I tried to define what I was supposed to grow up to be - a WOMAN. Now, I search for the sources of my strengths and weaknesses. An odd mixture of gumption and acquiescence."
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