Memory lapse

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Meador, Clifton - United States 1957. 1998. Memory Lapse. Long, Slow March (1995), Whisky Defense (2001), Nameless Dead (2004), Avalanche (2007). Washington University in St. Louis, University Libraries, Urban Books, accessed February 10, 2026, https://digitalexhibits.library.wustl.edu/s/urban-books/item/3083

Title: Memory lapse
Creator: Meador, Clifton - United States 1957
Date: 1999
Description: Title Description - In Meador's latest work, he travels in northernmost Russia to the White Sea near the Arctic Circle to the Solovetski Monastery that became the first GULAG. The story is super-saturated as are the tints of the photographs that are printed full-page. Text appears to wander down stairs and through doors building the story of place as "a monument that exists in the mind of the reader." References: Art on Paper. 29 June 2008 (printedmatter.org).
Catalog record.; Physical Description - Trade case/smythe sewn. Offset lithography, printed by the artist in 30 colors of ink.
Call Number: N7433.4.M43 M45 1999
Link to Catalog Record: https://catalog.wustl.edu:443/record=b2982082~S2
Rights: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Publisher: Washington University in St. Louis, University Libraries
Tags: Artist supplied tags
Artist Keywords: Visual narrative
Artist Keywords: place and history
Artist Keywords: travel/tourism
Artist Keywords: monuments
Artist Keywords: memory; Tags supplied by Dr. Jana Harper, of Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts
Sam Fox Keywords: Travel / tourism; Library of Congress Subject Headings
Library Keywords: Meador, Clifton
Library Keywords: Solove t skii monastyr'
Library Keywords: Artists' books -- United States
Relation: Long, Slow March (1995), Whisky Defense (2001), Nameless Dead (2004), Avalanche (2007)

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