1989

Alternate Titles

• Nineteen eighty nine

Description

"A calendar of a sort, on its surface 1989 records Erica Van Horn's travels in 1989; the varied representations of days in the calendar portion of the book correspond with the dates in the index, which indicate where Van Horn was on all the days of the year. The visual patterns of the book, both the calendar pages and the dates and location index, are immediately recognizable, and so at first glance, the broad narrative of the book seems obvious. Following the index, however, Van Horn includes a kind of ratio: 365/231. The index and calendar do not reveal the nature of the 231 days, complicating what seems at first glance like a straightforward narrative. In this case, Van Horn uses visual patterning both to reveal and to conceal; a basic narrative is visible but a private narrative is hidden in plain sight. Van Horn underscores the personal and semi-private nature of this calendar-diary by using her own handwriting for both the calendar-drawings and the book.s text"--Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library WWW site, <http://brbl-archive.library.yale.edu/exhibitions/ericavanhorn/narrative.html>

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Other Editions

• 1989.Coracle Press1989-01-01
• 1989Coracle1991