Description
Julianne Mahler
Reading is Dangerous
Mixed Media in Clear Acrylic Box
$400
This piece is 11” square in the acrylic box. The book is a vintage copy of “Maus” by Art Spiegelman. Maus is a graphic novel describing the Holocaust and is a banned book in Tennessee. The book does have adult content and would be difficult for children and young teenagers to read without dialogue or context. The command to “Read” is cut and folded into the page edges of the book, one page at a time, the way one reads a book. The barbed wire mimics the fencing around the concentration camp and makes it dangerous to read the book. But the title is satirical. Not having the dialogue, not knowing and understanding history is dangerous. Not reading is more dangerous.
