Title: "The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas" and "Testimony against Gertrude Stein"
Size: 46" x 46" x 6"
Materials: Ink on Twinrocker handmade paper coated with pulverized hybrid rose petals, Magnifiers, Audio recording, Book Box containing the first edition of "The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas" (John Lane The Bodley Head Ltd., 1933) and "Testimony against Gertrude Stein" published as a supplement to the magazine "Transition", February, 1935.
Date: 2011
Curator: Eric Shiner
Exhibition: Gertrude's/LOT
Location: Andy Warhol Museum
Dates: September 17 - January 8, 2012
Photographed by: Laura Mustio (in-progress), Thomas Little (completed)

Gertrude's/LOT

Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh
September 17, 2011 - January 8, 2012

Using shades of red and pink ink, Diane Samuels hand-transcribed the entire volume of "The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas" onto paper handmade in the United States and coated with hybrid rose petals. Interspersed in purple ink, she hand-transcribed a counter-text—the "Testimony against Gertrude Stein" written by Georges Braque, Eugene Jolas, Marie Jolas, Henri Matisse, André Salmon and Tristan Tzara—objecting to their portrayal by Gertrude Stein in "The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas".

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