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This Book
- Artist
- Barbara Balfour
- Price
- $5.00
- Date
- 2009
- Publisher
- self published
- Format
- Multiples
- Size
- 9.7 × 12.7 cm
This project is inspired by Norman Bethune’s personalized bookplate, which reads: “This Book Belongs to Norman Bethune and Friends”. Bethune, the Canadian doctor eulogized by Mao Zedong, turned the notion of ownership upside down by this simple gesture.
With a collectivist spirit Balfour’s book plates read “This Book belongs to ____________ and Friends”
Sold in sets of five in a glassine envelope.
Edition of 1000.
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