Hands of Josephus
By: Miriam Schaer
Publisher: [s.n.]
Published: 2009
Place of publication: [s.l.]
Language: eng
Subjects: Artists' books; Altered books
Notes: "Hands of Josephus is an altered book, created from a broken down copy of Flavius Josepus ‘Twenty books of The Jewish Antiquities, The Life of Josephus and the The Jewish Wars’. Each page, cut in the shape of hands is sewn on multiple beaded cords, then attached to wire hand forms, which are encrusted with beads. Josephus, a 1st century Jewish historian and apologist who survived and recorded the Destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD. His works give an important insight into first-century Judaism, while raising questions about who owns history. The hand of the victor it seems, always controls the every version of truth."--Artist's web site, viewed August 9, 2013.

Housed in clothbound clamshell box.