(GRANARY BOOKS) Sherry Jane Venus Unbound

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(GRANARY BOOKS.) Sherry, Jane. Venus Unbound. Illustrated throughout by Sherry from metal plates made from her original paintings treated with extensive hand-work including gouache, pen and ink, photo-metallic collage, and rubber stamps. Text printed letterpress from plates on Rives BFK by Philip Gallo at The Hermetic Press. Small folio, cloth over boards with wire-edge structure by Daniel E. Kelm and staff at the Wide Awake Garage; housed in a cloth-covered clamshell box by Jill Jevne. (New York, 1993)

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number 4 of only 30 numbered copies outside of a lettered edition of 11. "In Venus Unbound, Jane Sherry explores the misogynist history of both eastern and western civilizations, and reclaims the symbols of female power which have been subverted by cultures worldwide. Sherry's dream journals were the source for text in this book, which is narrative in form, and personal or confessional in theme. Imagery of bondage and pain becomes increasingly positive and intimate"--from the publisher's website.