{"product_id":"scumb-manifesto-justine-kurland","title":"SCUMB Manifesto - Justine Kurland - SIGNED!","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eInspired by Valerie Solanas’ iconoclastic feminist tract\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eSCUM\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(Society for Cutting Up Men)\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eManifesto\u003c\/em\u003e,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eSCUMB Manifesto\u003c\/em\u003e introduces us to photographer Justine Kurland’s own uncompromising initiative: the Society for Cutting Up Men’s Books. This volume presents a collection of collages Kurland created by cutting up and reconfiguring photobooks by male artists, as she went through the process of purging her own library of roughly 150 books by straight white men that have monopolized the photographic canon. The nature of collage — heterogeneous, pulled apart, shape shifting, disrupted, cyborg, fantasy — has long made it a feminist strategy in life and in art.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eKurland's ritual is restorative and loving: each work\u003c\/span\u003e is a reclamation of history; a dismemberment of the patriarchy; a gender inversion of the usual terms of possession; and a modest attempt at offsetting a life of income disparity. While markedly different in style, the defiant female visions pictured in these compositions are a continuation of those depicted in Kurland’s earlier photographic projects\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eGirl Pictures\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(1997–2002) and\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eMama Babies\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(2004–07). Each work in\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eSCUMB\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003esounds an electrifying call for freedom — the freedom to create, to destroy, to imagine, and to reshape our visual and social world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eIncludes essays by Marina Chao, Renee Gladman, Catherine Lord, and Ariana Reines.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eABOUT THE SIGNED EDITION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe signed edition includes a slip signed by the artist and bound into the inside back cover.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSwiss bound paperback with sillkscreen printed gauze on spine\u003cbr\u003e18 gatefolds, with 2 paper stocks\u003cbr\u003e48 x 60cm poster inserted into back cover\u003cbr\u003e24.5 x 32cm, 282 pages, 116 plates\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eISBN \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMarch 2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e€75 £60 $80\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"MACKBOOKS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42569686352096,"sku":"","price":85.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0345\/2121\/9205\/products\/SCUMB_angledfront_860x_253385c3-ac10-4acd-b538-091844bdf47c.jpg?v=1647935136","url":"https:\/\/todomodo.live\/products\/scumb-manifesto-justine-kurland","provider":"Todo Modo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}