{"product_id":"scumb-manifesto-justine-kurland","title":"SCUMB Manifesto, Justine Kurland","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInspired by Valerie Solanas’ iconoclastic feminist tract SCUM (Society for Cutting Up Men) Manifesto, SCUMB Manifesto introduces us to photographer Justine Kurland’s own uncompromising initiative: the Society for Cutting Up Men’s Books. This volume presents a collection of collages Kurland created by cutting up and reconfiguring photobooks by male artists, as she went through the process of purging her own library of roughly 150 books by straight white men that have monopolized the photographic canon. The nature of collage — heterogeneous, pulled apart, shape shifting, disrupted, cyborg, fantasy — has long made it a feminist strategy in life and in art. Kurland's ritual is restorative and loving: each work is a reclamation of history; a dismemberment of the patriarchy; a gender inversion of the usual terms of possession; and a modest attempt at offsetting a life of income disparity. While markedly different in style, the defiant female visions pictured in these compositions are a continuation of those depicted in Kurland’s earlier photographic projects Girl Pictures (1997–2002) and Mama Babies (2004–07). Each work in SCUMB sounds an electrifying call for freedom — the freedom to create, to destroy, to imagine, and to reshape our visual and social world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIncludes essays by Marina Chao, Renee Gladman, Catherine Lord, and Ariana Reines.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003ePublished by MACK Books\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eSoftcover, with sillkscreen printed gauze on spine\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e282 pages with \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e18 gatefolds\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" mce-data-marked=\"1\"\u003e480 × 600 mm\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" mce-data-marked=\"1\"\u003eISBN 9781913620547\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MACK Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42862203338966,"sku":"SMJK","price":75.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2538\/3478\/products\/Scumb-Manifesto-Justine-Kurland-mack-books-cover-scaledcopy.jpg?v=1650900579","url":"https:\/\/www.thelibraryproject.ie\/es\/products\/scumb-manifesto-justine-kurland","provider":"The Library Project","version":"1.0","type":"link"}