Golden Lotus

Colette Fu Golden Lotus

Colette Fu is renowned for her immense, sculptural pop-up books that combine landscapes, fairy tales, and folklore to form three-dimensional fantasy worlds. Her book Golden Lotus references a popular Chinese origin story of the custom of foot-binding, telling the history of the practice within a historical and personal context. The book features a dos-à-dos binding. One side features a pop-up golden lotus made with handmade paper using lotus root, kozo, and cotton fibers. The images on the petals are from a 1970s X-ray of bound feet combined with X-ray images of the artist’s own feet, and are printed with polyester lithography plates. The other side is a six page booklet featuring text, and photographs taken by the artist on a trip to China in 2014. These images are printed using photo polymer intaglio plates.

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Colette Fu Golden Lotus

Colette Fu Golden Lotus

Colette Fu Golden Lotus

Colette Fu Golden Lotus

Colette Fu Golden Lotus

Colette Fu Golden Lotus

Colette Fu Golden Lotus

Colette Fu Golden Lotus

Colette Fu Golden Lotus

Colette Fu Golden Lotus

Colette Fu Golden Lotus

Colette Fu Golden Lotus

Holdings

Ringling School of Art & Design, Virginia Commonwealth University, Bucknell University, Yale University, Harvard University, Smith College, Rhode Island School of Design, Swarthmore College, University of Michigan, Claremont Colleges, University of Central Florida, Colby College, Baylor University, University of Iowa, Rochester Institute of Technology, Indiana University Bloomington, Library of Congress, Smithsonian, University of Arkansas, University of Puget Sound, Ohio State University, Stanford University Libraries, University of Delaware, New York Public Library, Penn State University, Temple University Libraries, University of California (San Diego), Athenaeum Music and Arts Library, University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill)

Metadata

Title:

Golden Lotus

Date of publication:

2022

Place of publication:

Rosendale, NY

Publisher:

Women's Studio Workshop

Subjects:

China, Chinese History, Foot Binding

ISBN:

978-1-943039-26-5

Dimensions:

4.25" x 3.25" x 5/8"

Number in edition:

53

Paging:

6

Paper:

Handmade paper from lotus root, kozo, and cotton

Printing method:

Photographs were taken by the artist in 2014, and are printed using photo polymer intaglio plates. Lotus petals and pop-up spread are printed with polyester lithography plates, and all text is letterpress printed with photopolymer plates

Typeface:

Song Ti

Binding:

Dos a Dos

Structure:

Folio spread with pop-up, and drum leaf booklet with spine

Funding source:

New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature, the Cowles Family Foundation, the Windgate Foundation, the Milton and Avery Arts Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Signature:

Signed by the artist

Writer:

Colette Fu

Printer:

Aurora Brush, Judith Tong, Hannah Moog and Chris Petrone

Binder:

Colette Fu, Aurora Brush, Judith Tong, Hannah Moog, and Chris Petrone