Claire Dannenbaum
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Claire Dannenbaum
Description
Claire Dannenbaum is a librarian and artist in Eugene, Oregon. Her recent work explores the conceptual life of books. To see more of her work, please visit: http://www.ephemerarium.wordpress.com
Collection Items
Coverlet: A Lover's Discourse
Twin-size quilted coverlet created from a French edition of Roland Barthes’ classic A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments, quilt batting, cotton fabric, thread, and satin binding tape.
Paradiso
This piece is a sister to Inferno, but celebrates the text with a constellation of gold spots. As with the other books in Dante’s Divine Comedy, circles play a central role in Paradiso (Heaven, or Paradise). Concepts of orbiting, traveling,…
Mrs. Dalloway (View of the Ouse in Daylight)
This is half of a diptych created from Virginia Woolf’s dazzling short novel, Mrs Dalloway, originally published in London in 1925. The two panels are subtitled View of the Ouse in Daylight and View of the Ouse in Moonlight, with daylight referencing…
Halo
This piece is an apt summation of my art work of the last few of years – most of which is born from my deep attachment to and reverence for the book form (arguably the most ingenious, mobile, transferable, humanistic, and renewable technology ever…