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The contest of the fruits

Title: The contest of the fruits / Slavs and Tatars.
Author: Slavs and Tatars (Group of artists), artist.
Publication: Paris, France : Three Star Books, 2023.

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Status	Format	Access	Call Number	Item Location
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Text	By appointment only	Spencer Coll. French 2023 24-330	Schwarzman Building - Print Collection Room 308

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Description

24 unnumbered pages : color illustrations; 36 cm

Alternative Title

Contest of the fruits (lyric book)

Subjects

Genre/Form

artists' books (books)
Artists' books.
Poetry.
Translations.

Note

"Lyrics from Slavs and Tatars' animation 'The Contest of the Fruits.' This is a modernized RAP adapted by rapper Nashtarr and scholar Eric Schluessel from Gunnar Jarring's 1936 transcription of the Uyghur Munāźara."
This Three Star Books' publication reflects the artists' penchant for blending traditional crafts with contemporary techniques, as is evident in the large calligraphic fruits printed with pigment print and black letterpress, and the lyrics laid out on a different color paper. The cover is adorned with fabric, marked with black foil, and each book is numbered with a pencil and is stamped with the distinctive logo of Slavs and Tatars. About The Contest of the Fruits: Slavs and Tatars have long been interested in the margins of empires, the limits of ideologies and the edges of belief systems. Perhaps nowhere more than the Uyghur region (aka Xinjiang, literally {'The New Frontier') does one find such a compelling if contested cross-roads of languages, identity and faith. Whereas for most of the Western world, Islam is seen as foreign and eastern, for China, Islam comes invariably from the West, one of the three Abrahamic religions. -- Three Star website, viewed June 6, 2023.

Language (note)

Text in English, Chinese and Uighur.

Call Number

Spencer Coll. French 2023 24-330

OCLC

1392652982

Author

Slavs and Tatars (Group of artists), artist.

Title

The contest of the fruits / Slavs and Tatars.

Publisher

Paris, France : Three Star Books, 2023.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Language

Text in English, Chinese and Uighur.

Local Note

Spencer Coll. copy is no. 6 of an edition of 20 copies.

Place of Publication

France Paris

Added Author

Nashtarr.

Schluessel, Eric, contributor.

Jarring, Gunnar, 1907-2002. Munāźara.

Research Call Number

Spencer Coll. French 2023 24-330

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