Accession number
PML 199119
Creator
Minsky, Richard, creator, binder.
Published
New York : Richard Minsky, issued March 1, 2002
Credit line
Purchased as the gift of Karen B. Cohen in honor of the Morgan's Centennial, 2024.
Notes
Part of Richard Minsky's The Bill of Rights limited edition set, a collection of 10 bookworks and a broadside that exemplify and comment on the Bill of Rights, the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution.
Amendment VIII states "Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted."
The Morgan Library & Museum's copy is no. VI--one of 9 copies projected to be issued by the artist. .
Amendment VIII states "Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted."
The Morgan Library & Museum's copy is no. VI--one of 9 copies projected to be issued by the artist. .
Description
1 bookwork (1 book chained in a 'jail cell') ; 30 x 22.5 x 21.5 cm.
Summary
A signed, limited revised edition of Forlorn hope by Larry E. Sullivan (originally published by G.K. Hall & Co, ©1990), produced for Richard Minsky's The Bill of Rights, housed in a miniature painted wooden jail cell with the Eighth Amendment printed on paper affixed to the side. The book is chained to the jail cell.
Binding
Bound in black and white striped cloth with the word "CONVICT" on the back cover, printed inkjet on canvas; a metal chain connects the book to the minature jail cell.
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