Impedement

This book investigates the abuse of women’s feet and footwear through the ages-from the ancient Chinese foot binding to high heeled shoes of the present. Personal and historical narratives illustrate the results of cultures’ enduring foot fetish. After reading this one, you’ll never be tempted to squeeze into “just a half size smaller” again. Nested within is a pop-up which presents the reader with a packet of “seeds” for change.

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Yale University, University of Delaware, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Duke University, Rhode Island School of Design, Montclair State University, University of Wisconsin (Milwaukee), Reed College, Swarthmore College, Walker Art Center, Wesleyan University, Dartmouth College, Washington University (St. Louis), University of Tulsa, University of California (Los Angeles), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Scripps College, Wheaton College, Rochester Institute of Technology, Cleveland Institute of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Virginia Commonwealth University, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Maryland Institute College of Art, Colgate University, University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill), University of Rochester, University of California (Santa Cruz), University of New Mexico (Albuquerque), University of Houston, Museum of Fine Arts (Boston), University of California (San Diego), Carleton College Library, Univ of North Carolina, Newark Public Library, Museum of Contemporary Art (San Diego), University of North Carolina (Greensboro), Albright-Knox Art Museum, Center for Women's History, Dickson Art Center, California Institute of the Arts, Vassar College Library, James Madison University, Carnegie-Mellon University, Columbia University, University of Miami, Siena Heights University, Victoria and Albert Museum, McNay Art Museum, Athenaeum Music and Arts Library, Concord Academy, Bucknell University Bertrand Library, CalArts (California Institute of the Arts), The New York Public Library, George Mason University, Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis-IUPUI, University of Michigan, Savannah College of Art & Design, Library of Congress, University of Southern California, University of Central Florida, University California (Santa Barbara), SUNY at Purchase, Otis College of Art and Design, Ohio University, Mills College, Midwest Library Service, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Indiana University Bloomington, Getty Research Institute for History of Art & Humanities, Harvard, California Polytechnic State University

Metadata

Title:

Impedement

Other titles:

Im-ped-e-ment, Impediment

Date of publication:

1991

Place of publication:

Rosendale, NY

Publisher:

Women's Studio Workshop

Subjects:

Shoes, Foot

Dimensions:

25 x 15 cm.

Number in edition:

200

Paging:

[20] p., 1 folded

Paper:

Curtis Tuscan Terra, Rives BFK, UV Ultra, handmade paper with toenails and hair and a seed packet

Printing method:

Silkscreen, letterpress

Binding:

Saddle stitch pamphlet

Structure:

Codex

Funding source:

National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, Women's Studio Workshop

Printer:

Cheri Gaulke

Binder:

Cheri Gaulke

Other notes:

Pop up holds miniature metal shoe in envelope; Pop up design by Kim Knox of Nexus Press