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2020 Journal_013

Item

Open book displaying a photo on the left and the cover of "Five Hundred Years of Women's Work" on the right.
Title
2020 Journal_013
Alternative Title
2020 Journal
Creator
Karen Blessen
Date
2020
Description
The image features an open book with two pages visible. The left page displays a small photograph attached to a textured brown page. The photo shows a person seated in a room with a large screen displaying the text "NO SIGNAL." Below the photo, handwritten text reads "Gretchen seated at the Grolier Club." The right page contains a bright red cover with white text, titled "Five Hundred Years of Women's Work: The Lisa Unger Baskin Collection." Below the title is a black and white illustration reminiscent of the Vitruvian Man, but depicting a woman. The words "A Self-Guided Tour" appear beneath the illustration. Further text at the bottom credits the collection to various institutions and curators.
Dates Completed
January 1, 2020 - January 30, 2020
Keywords
2020; New decade; Chart; Road metaphor; Bricks; Mortar; Rest stops; Dangers; Human body; Mortality; Poignancy; Connections; Sadness; Grief; Aging; Australia fires; Horror of 2020; $81,000 grant; Trust for Public Land; Texas Trees Foundation; Jonathan McNulty; David McNulty; Murder; Wounds; Baby elephants; Dream; “You are unstoppable”; NYC trip; FIVE HUNDRED YEARS OF WOMEN’S WORK; Lisa Unger Baskin Collection; Grolier Club; NYC libraries; Book display; Collections; Researchers; Lisa Unger Baskin; Magical day; Well being; New York Public Library; J.D. Salinger exhibit; Made at NYPL exhibit; Wallace Shawn; Artifact display; Book binding; Women in France; Inexplicable well being; Wave not the water; Broadway; Central vein; Long leaf; Walking; Orthopedic surgeries; Morgan Library; Duane Michals; Word and Image; NYPL; Animal skin fortune; Met Breuer; Home is a Foreign Place; Jody Shields; Metropolitan Museum; Friday evening; Cafe Sabarsky; Free man in Paris; Recollection; Recognition of freedom; Responsibility; Central Park; Beacon Hotel; Room with a view; Magic; Best Small Garden award; Dallas
Transcription
Left page: "NO SIGNAL," "Gretchen seated at the Grolier Club."

Right page: "FIVE HUNDRED YEARS OF WOMEN’S WORK: THE LISA UNGER BASKIN COLLECTION," "A Self-Guided Tour," "Five Hundred Years of Women's Work: the Lisa Unger Baskin Collection is presented by the Grolier Club and the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Duke University. The exhibition was curated by Lisa Unger Baskin, Naomi L. Nelson, and Lauren Reno."
Rights
To inquire about usage, please contact Archives & Special Collections, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries. These images are for educational use only. Not all images are available for publication.
Is Part Of
2020 Journal
Relation
Image Gallery