The City Within

The City Within is a kinetic bookwork exploring cartography and fantastical anatomy. Juxtaposing bird’s eye maps and hand-drawn street-level maps with a rib cage of text centered around Montreal’s downtown core, The City Within overlays the heart of a city with the interior body of a city dweller. Both a bookwork and a sculptural object, this multi-layered book is able to be read and explored through many pathways. Using metaphoric imagery and a transforming book structure as an open-ended narrative, Natalie Draz combines traditional print media of intaglio and screenprinting with flag, tunnel book and pop-up structures. Housed in a wooden box.

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Bucknell University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ohio State University, University of Delaware, Rochester Institute of Rochester Institute of Technology, Bennington College, Indiana University Bloomington, Rhode Island School of Design, Vassar College, Virginia Commonwealth, Harvard University, Wesleyan University, Rochester Institute of Technology, Wesleyan Library, Indiana University, Virginia Commonwealth University, Yale University, University of Michigan, Library of Congress, New York Public Library, University of Iowa, Arizona State University, Vamp & Tramp Booksellers, Temple University Libraries, University of California at Berkeley, Baylor University, Bainbridge Island Museum of Contemporary Art, Savannah College of Art & Design, University of California (Santa Barbara), University of Colorado (Boulder), Oberlin College, Claremont Colleges, University of Wisconsin (Milwaukee), University of Pennsylvania

Metadata

Title:

The City Within

Date of publication:

2016

Place of publication:

Rosendale, NY

Publisher:

Women's Studio Workshop

Subjects:

mapping, maps, architecture, sculptural, Montreal, aerial view, cartography, city dweller, city life, anatomy

ISBN:

1-893125-97-1

Dimensions:

8 1/2” x 14”

Number in edition:

60

Paging:

34

Paper:

Rives Heavyweight and Mohawk

Printing method:

Etching and Silkscreen

Typeface:

22 pt Calibri

Structure:

Movable Book (Tunnel Book)

Funding source:

New York State Council on the Arts, Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts

Signature:

yes

Writer:

Natalie Draz

Printer:

Natalie Draz and Elizabeth Melnyczuk

Binder:

Natalie Drazand Chris Petrone