State Library of Victoria acquires copy of ‘Encore Un Effort’ by Dr Sharon Kivland (Fine Art, SHU)

The State Library of Victoria in Australia has just acquired a copy of Sharon Kivland’s artist’s book Encore un Effort. Encore un effort was published in 2012 in an edition of 100 at the invitation of Noreen Grahame, for the exhibition Lessons in History Volume II – Democracy at Grahame Galleries and Editions.

In it, cropped images from a set of photographs in the student paper Tribune from May ’68, show details of clothes in moments of violence. The centre pages are a spread of text drawn from fashion magazines of the same period in French history which offer radical possibilities in hems and lapels, but also included two slogans, one from 1968 and the other from 1789. The booklet was is democratically printed in a reprographic unit.

“The centre pages carry the breathless descriptions of the new fashions for 1968 … The images are cropped from documents of violence, but attention is directed to sartorial details. Beauty is in the streets as fashion becomes democratic (or so the house of haute couture), while the philosopher of the boudoir extorts us once again.”
Sharon Kivland

Dr Sharon Kivland is a Reader in Fine Art at Sheffield Hallam University. Find out more about Sharon’s work here.