Detail View: Hebraica Collection: Handmade book - Head
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Image Number:
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JRL19100669
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Reference Number:
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VFA.14
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Image Title:
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Handmade book - Head
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Parent Work Title:
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Handle with Care
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Alternative Parent Work Title:
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Handle with Care - The Traces and the Spaces that our Bodies leave behind
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Creator:
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Nicholls, Jacqueline
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Creator Role:
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Artist
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Date Created:
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2019
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Image Sequence Number:
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028
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Image Sequence Total:
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029
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Description:
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Head of handmade book. 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”.
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Keyword:
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Artwork; Hand-print; Impressions
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Language:
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English
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Language Code:
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eng-GB
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Category of Material:
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Visual
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Sub-Category:
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Fine Art
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Current Repository:
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The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
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Rights Holder - Image:
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The University of Manchester Library
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Rights holder - Work:
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© Jacqueline Nicholls
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Notes:
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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.
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Date Image Added (yyyy-mm):
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2019-11
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Metadata Language:
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eng-GB
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