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After stumbling upon a wooden box containing a complete set of miniature wax mold figurines of US presidents at a flea market, artist Alex Forman began photographing each little man, minus their pedestals. Presented for the first time in book format, Forman's elegant black and white portraits are accompanied by brief biographies composed entirely of appropriated texts cleverly cut and reassembled by the author. What emerges in Tall, Slim & Erect: Portraits of the Presidents is not the tired tale of legendary men and their mythical quest for democracy, but rather, a gossip's dream: Jefferson could not ride a horse for months due to boils on his backside; Hayes felt a crazed and tender devotion to his sister Fanny; Wilson remained a virgin until twenty-eight. While playfully shedding light on these powerful men, their quirks, bodily functions, and stained sheets, Tall, Slim & Erect ultimately asks the reader to question how history is written and built on hearsay, conjecture, rumor, and repetition.
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Keywords
- Art treatments & subjects
- Biography
- Biography & True Stories
- Biography: general
- Biography: historical, political & military
- Central government
- Human figures depicted in art
- Marx toys
- Photography
- Politics & government
- Portraits in art
- Society & Social Sciences
- The arts
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- thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DN Biography and non-fiction prose::DNB Biography: general::DNBH Biography: historical, political and military
- thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPQ Central / national / federal government
- us history
- US Presidents
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DOI: 10.53288/0508.1.00Editions