Creator
Angela Lorenz
Title
Pandora’s Hieroglyphic Primer
Coverage
Bologna, IT
Publisher
Angela Lorenz
Date
1992
Subject
No. 35 of an edition of 45, signed by the artist. Silkscreen printed in Century Schoolhouse on cotton sheet at Edizioni Grafiche Il Navile, hand-colored and cut by the artist).
Description
American artist Lorenz has created many limited-edition artists’ books, several of which center on language. Here she presents examples of misrepresentation of women through western history. “Pandora’s Hieroglyphic Primer is a poem of words and hieroglyphics colored by hand. The text is based on information from history and mythology concerning prototypes of women responsible for propagating evil in the world. … I discovered that the number of negatively-depicted women was enormous, and thus I have limited my representations to a select few …” From the artist’s website.
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