The bears /
The Bears is a book about Bears. It was begat from a series of encounters that occurred in the neighborhood of Chelsea, New York between July, 2008 and December, 2010. The book seeks to present a notion of bearishness by tracing back the subculture to its western American roots in lumberjacking, mot...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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[New York?] :
Two Thousand & Eleven,
[2011]
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| Edition: | 2nd edition. |
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| Summary: | The Bears is a book about Bears. It was begat from a series of encounters that occurred in the neighborhood of Chelsea, New York between July, 2008 and December, 2010. The book seeks to present a notion of bearishness by tracing back the subculture to its western American roots in lumberjacking, motorcycling and frontiersmanship. Using as its jump-off points the California state flag, the constellation of Ursa Major, and the phenomenon of the so-called Bear Code, The Bears goes on to delineate its author's relationship to the animal itself, to the representations of (and cultural references to) that animal, and to the individuals that have co-opted that animal's designation ('Bear'). The paperback, belly-banded book includes a series of ten small foldout posters and a sixteen-page saddle-stitched portion entitled The Dead Bears. |
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| Item Description: | Issued with belly band. The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy was acquired as part of the Antonio C. LaPastina and Dale Rice Collection. |
| Physical Description: | 1 portfolio (10 posters, 1 booklet, 3 postcards) : illustrations ; 22 cm |