"Expurgated"
Subtitle: [tea-book]
By: Christine Kermaire
Contributors: United Nations. General Assembly
Publisher: Christine Kermaire
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Charleroi, Belgium
Language: eng
Subjects: Artists' books; Words in art; Arts; Censorship; Human rights in art; United Nations. General Assembly; United Nations
Notes: Issued in a decorated folded enclosure and resealable plastic bag.

Edition limited to 300 numbered copies signed by the artist.

Item opens up into the shape of a pyramid, designed to store the enclosed tea bag, the base of which contains the text of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 2-3; those words are also printed separately on slivers of paper inserted into a tea bag and issued in separate smaller resealable plastic bag.

"Ingredients: Universal Declaration of Human Rights printed with edible coloring, on edible paper and pulped. Tea, natural flavouring. Store in a dark and dry place."

"01-09-2013"

Rare Book copy: No. 174.

Gift of Christine Kermaire, January 15, 2014

Text in English and French.