{"title":"NICK VAUGHAN \u0026 JAKE MARGOLIN","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\" data-pm-slice='1 1 [\"unorderedList\",null,\"listItem\",null]'\u003eNick Vaughan \u0026amp; Jake Margolin are Houston-based interdisciplinary artists creating an ongoing series of fifty installations made in response to little-known pre-Stonewall queer histories from each state. This multi-decade endeavor draws from recent groundbreaking academic work, the artists’ own archival research, and significant time spent learning from and collaborating with local LGBTQ community members.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"norma-trist-or-pure-carbon-a-story-of-the-inversion-of-the-sexes","title":"Norma Trist; or Pure Carbon:  A Story of the Inversion of the Sexes","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e‘NORMA TRIST’ comprises 6 folded intaglio prints (12”x24”) and a 149 page accordion bound serigraphed text with illustrations. The 6 folio plates were printed from photo-etched polymer plates by Katherine Brimberry using graphite based ink and flocked with loose graphite powder on Rives BFK paper at Flatbed Press. The remaining loose graphite was secured with fixative. The serigraphed text was printed by Pepe Coronado on Rives lightweight paper. The typographic design is by Nick Vaughan and Jake Margolin and is based on the original lead typeface from the first and only printing of ‘Norma Trist’ in 1895 by Eugene von Boeckmann in Austin, TX. The text binding and box are by Jace Graf at Cloverleaf Studio.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe layout of the text is based on the artists’ 2016 physical installation: ‘50 States: Texas’, in which the complete text was stenciled over 100 linear feet of paper in loose graphite powder which was degraded over the course of its exhibition by airflow, insects and errant viewers’ fingers . For this edition, the folio print plates were likewise created with loose stenciled graphite left open to the elements and organic interventions which were subsequently photographed by the artists.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEach chapter is illustrated with an image of what currently stands on the sites of historic lesbian and gay bars across the state of Texas.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe production of this edition is funded in part by the City of Houston through Houston Arts Alliance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA Note on this edition from the artists:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“In 1895 John Wesley Carhart, a prominent medical doctor from the small town of La Grange, TX wrote a novel featuring what is most likely American fiction’s first unambiguously lesbian protagonist. The text is notable for its astonishingly sympathetic and progressive ideological defenses of homosexuality and incoporates references to cutting-edge fin-de-siecle medical thought on same-sex desire. Particularly worthy of attention is Chapter 27, in which Norma is put on trial for the attempted murder of her lover Marie (pp 121-124).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCarhart’s views on race are decidedly less enlightened than his views on sexuality. The book contains racist depictions of African American, Jewish, and Mexican characters. With the exception of a single racial epithet, which we have omitted, we have included the complete text of Norma Trist in an effort to avoid sanitizing Carhart’s legacy.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e-Nick Vaughan and Jake Margolin\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr clear=\"none\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr clear=\"none\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr clear=\"none\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Printing was completed in Austin, TX in October 2020\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr clear=\"none\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFlatbed Press, Publisher\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nick Vaughan and Jake Margolin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":33001604349986,"sku":"","price":5500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1863\/3007\/products\/NormaTristclosedbox.jpg?v=1607448226"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1863\/3007\/collections\/Nick_Jake.png?v=1780512552","url":"https:\/\/flatbed-press.myshopify.com\/collections\/nick-vaughan-jake-margolin.oembed","provider":"Flatbed Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}