Miriam Schaer: 'Hands of Josephus' included in exhibition 'Design Across Time' at Cooper Hewitt, NYC
Miriam Schaer's artist book, Hands of Josephus V, is included in Design Across Time, part of Our Shared Future: 250, a museum wide initiative at the Cooper Hewitt American Design Museum
Hands of Josephus is a series of five altered books created from distressed copies of Flavius Josepus' Twenty books of the Jewish Antiquities, The Life of Josephus and The Jewish Wars. Each page, cut in the shape of a hand is sewn on multiple beaded cords, then attached to wire hand forms encrusted with beads. Josephus was a first-century Jewish historian and Roman apologist who survived and recorded the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 A.D. His works provide important insights into first-century Judaism, while raising questions about who owns history.
Cooper Hewitt American Design Museum
2 East 91 Street, NY, NY
This book was acquired in 2024 for the artist book collection with Central Booking Art Space in Brooklyn.
The exhibition opens Friday June 26, the exhibition will be on view through 2028