Main entry:

Bajo, Delia.

Title & Author:

The content of desperation : a true story / Delia Bajo & Brainard Carey.

Publication:

Paris : Onestar Press, [2005], ©2005

Description:

1 online resource (147 pages) : illustrations

Notes:
A collection of e-mail responses sent back to the two artists upon their request for financial assistance prior to the birth of their baby.
Limited edition of 250 numbered copies printed.
Library has copy number 36.
ILO
Interior : black-and-white, Binding : glue bound, Cover : Paperback, color, glossy finish.

Summary:

"Two artists (Delia Bajo and Brainard Carey) live in the East Village of New York City. They get married, and after Delia gets pregnant, they decide to have the child, faced with neither insurance or a steady income. They ask for help in a unique way--by sending out one hundred thousand letters via email asking for advice, a donation, or help of any kind. While they are trying to make art, to raise a child, to live, they are hounded by the cruelest of predators --the bills. Strangely perhaps, they persevere through the most desperate situations with tempers and tears, and have not given up. This book is one story of survival, of desperation, of a gamble that they took with the stress and anticipation of a child on the way. In the letters of advice that came in and are printed here, there are glimpses of man's humanity to man. And even when there is a bit of inhumanity, it often carries an overtone of care, undermining its angry surface. This is a book of hope."--P. [4] of cover.

Subject:

Bajo, Delia.
Carey, Brainard.
Praxis.
Electronic mail art.
Artists' books United States Specimens.
E-mail art.

Form/genre:

Artists' books (books) 2005.
Artists' books (books) France 21st century.

Added entries:

Carey, Brainard.
Onestar Press.