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Summary:

The artist muses on the use of language and the semantics of diction choices, beginning with "see-saw" instead of "teeter totter," in radio programs, novels, television shows, motion pictures, and historical use. She connects these considerations of language to larger questions of interpersonal relationships and self-identification and explores how these have changed over time, even by reproducing a Google Ngram graph to illustrate changes visually.

Author/Creator:

Hicks, Candace , author, artist

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Common threads [by Hicks, C.] > Volume 96

Related Series:

Common threads; v. 96

Common threads; volume 96

Alternate Titles:

Cover title: Composition

Subjects:

National Public Radio (U.S.) — Semantics

Language and languages — 21st century

Manners and customs — 21st century

Literature, Modern — 21st century — Criticism and interpretation

Television programs — Criticism and interpretation

Motion pictures — Criticism and interpretation

Canvas embroidery — 21st century — Specimens

National Public Radio (U.S.)

2000-2099

Language and languages

Manners and customs

Literature, Modern

Criticism and interpretation

Television programs

Motion pictures

Canvas embroidery

Semantics

Genres:

Artists' books

Embroidered bindings

Embroidering

Specimens

General Notes:

Title from first page of text; date and statement of responsibility from final page of text.
As bound by artist. Cloth cover with embroidered title "Composition", depicting seesaws in blue and green thread on the cream background. Black cloth spine. The pages are cloth, with text embroidered in black thread on blue ledger lines with red margins in imitation of a student composition book.

Physical Description:

8 unnumbered pages : illustrations, graph ; 23 cm.

Physical Characteristics:

canvas

Call Numbers:

N7433.4.H535 C66 v. 96 2019

OCLC Numbers:

1463099159