{"id":337,"date":"2013-02-12T16:28:35","date_gmt":"2013-02-12T21:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/finearts\/?p=337"},"modified":"2013-02-12T16:28:35","modified_gmt":"2013-02-12T21:28:35","slug":"listen-listen-a-new-artists-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/finearts\/2013\/02\/12\/listen-listen-a-new-artists-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Listen, listen : a new artist&#8217;s book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/finearts\/files\/2013\/02\/DSC00487.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-340\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/finearts\/files\/2013\/02\/DSC00487-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/finearts\/files\/2013\/02\/DSC00487-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/finearts\/files\/2013\/02\/DSC00487-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Fine Arts Library has just purchased a copy of the limited edition <a href=\"http:\/\/hollis.harvard.edu\/?itemid=|library\/m\/aleph|013369817\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Listen, listen : Adadam Agofomma : honoring the legacy of Koo Nimo<\/span><\/a> produced by the book artist Mary Hark as a tribute to a Ghanaian musician. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Listen, listen<\/span> is a visual interpretation of\u00a0 Nimo\u2019s \u2018palmwine music\u2019. Hark uses native materials such as maize, plantain leaves, and papyrus to make the paper which is printed in a letterpress studio in Minnesota and finally bound in her own studio in Madison, Wisconsin.\u00a0 The book incorporates recordings as well as prints by Ghanaian artist Atta Kwami.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Listen, listen\u2019 fits into the library\u2019s mission to collect a variety of artists\u2019 books. Our artists\u2019 books collection features personal, cultural, and political statements made by international artists working in a book or book-like format. For more information on this collection, look here: <a href=\"http:\/\/hcl.harvard.edu\/libraries\/finearts\/collections\/artists_books.cfm\">http:\/\/hcl.harvard.edu\/libraries\/finearts\/collections\/artists_books.cfm<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Listen, listen<\/span> fits into the library\u2019s mission to collect a variety of artists\u2019 books. Our <a href=\"http:\/\/hcl.harvard.edu\/libraries\/finearts\/collections\/artists_books.cfm\">artists\u2019 books collection<\/a> features personal, cultural, and political statements made by international artists working in a book or book-like form.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Fine Arts Library has just purchased a copy of the limited edition Listen, listen : Adadam Agofomma : honoring the legacy of Koo Nimo produced by the book artist Mary Hark as a tribute to a Ghanaian musician. Listen, listen is a visual interpretation of\u00a0 Nimo\u2019s \u2018palmwine music\u2019. 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