COLLECTION NAME:
Hebraica Collection
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Manchester~10~10
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Image Number:
JRL19100646
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JRL19100646
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Reference Number:
VFA.14
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VFA.14
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Image Title:
Book display pillow
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Book display pillow
Image Title
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Parent Work Title:
Handle with Care
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Handle with Care
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Alternative Parent Work Title:
Handle with Care - The Traces and the Spaces that our Bodies leave behind
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Handle with Care - The Traces and the Spaces that our Bodies leave behind
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Creator:
Jacqueline Nicholls
creator
Jacqueline Nicholls
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Creator Role:
Artist
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Artist
Creator Role
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Date Created:
2019
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2019
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Image Sequence Number:
005
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005
Image Sequence Number
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Image Sequence Total:
029
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029
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Description:
First book display pillow. As part of the activities of the "50 Jewish Objects" project, Jacqueline Nicholls created "Handle with Care" in response to the Library's materials: 1. handwritten fragment from Maimondes’ Mishah Torah 2. The Book of Wonder 3. a hamza (an amulet in the shape of a hand), and 4. Elaine Feinstein’s poem ‘Hands’ - the memory and touch of one who is not there. Artwork: Handmade book, presented within tyvek pillows reminiscent of the supports used by the Library. The books covered were made from photocopied, pulped sheets of Rambam’s Mishna Torah, moulded in empty spaces of my cupped handed. The book is made from a concertina, on one side are drawings of the spaces created by the fingers as they hold and touch. The other side are some of my notes and reflections from being in the archive. The artist made cut-outs of the negative spaces of the hands, so when the concertina was bound at one edge, only glimpses of the writing can be seen. An echo of the some of the holes and spaces of the items in the books in the archive. On the pillows are printed the phrases “handle with care” and “the traces and the spaces that our bodies leave behind”.
description
First book display pillow. As part of the activities of the "50 Jewish Objects" project, Jacqueline Nicholls created "Handle with Care" in response to the Library's materials: 1. handwritten fragment from Maimondes’ Mishah Torah 2. The Book of Wonder 3. a hamza (an amulet in the shape of a hand), and 4. Elaine Feinstein’s poem ‘Hands’ - the memory and touch of one who is not there. Artwork: Handmade book, presented within tyvek pillows reminiscent of the supports used by the Library. The books covered were made from photocopied, pulped sheets of Rambam’s Mishna Torah, moulded in empty spaces of my cupped handed. The book is made from a concertina, on one side are drawings of the spaces created by the fingers as they hold and touch. The other side are some of my notes and reflections from being in the archive. The artist made cut-outs of the negative spaces of the hands, so when the concertina was bound at one edge, only glimpses of the writing can be seen. An echo of the some of the holes and spaces of the items in the books in the archive. On the pillows are printed the phrases “handle with care” and “the traces and the spaces that our bodies leave behind”.
Description
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Keyword:
Artwork; Hand-print; Impressions
keyword
Artwork; Hand-print; Impressions
Keyword
false
Category of Material:
Visual
category
Visual
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false
Sub-Category:
Fine Art
class
Fine Art
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false
Current Repository:
The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
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The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
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Rights Holder - Image:
The University of Manchester Library
Rights holder - Work:
© Jacqueline Nicholls
Notes:
As part of the activities of the 50 Jewish Objects project, creative pieces are commissioned to contemporary artists in response to selected artefacts from The John Rylands Library and the research produced by Dr Stefania Silvestri, Cuntre of Jewish Studies, The University of Manchester.
notes
As part of the activities of the 50 Jewish Objects project, creative pieces are commissioned to contemporary artists in response to selected artefacts from The John Rylands Library and the research produced by Dr Stefania Silvestri, Cuntre of Jewish Studies, The University of Manchester.
Notes
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Date Image Added (yyyy-mm):
2019-11
Metadata Language:
eng-GB