Manhattan bus map

Item

Surek, Dogan. 2007. Manhattan Bus Map. Washington University in St. Louis, University Libraries, Urban Books, accessed October 8, 2026, https://digitalexhibits.library.washu.edu/s/urban-books/item/3188

Title: Manhattan bus map
Creator: Surek, Dogan
Date: 2008
Description: Title Description - This accordian-fold book depicts three couples, each of a different combination of genders, rendered in grotesque painterly style in shades of black, white, grey, and (for lips and nipples) bright red. The tongues of each couple meet in the folds of the book, and are collaged-in with sections of a Manhattan bus map. The map for each tongue represents a different bus line (From M1 through M60), but each map shows the same area of Manhattan around Central Park. 29 June 2009 (printedmatter.org).
Catalog record.
Call Number: N7433.4.S87 M36 1996
Link to Catalog Record: https://catalog.wustl.edu:443/record=b2981047~S2
Rights: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Publisher: Washington University in St. Louis, University Libraries
Tags: Artist supplied tags
Artist Keywords:; Tags supplied by Dr. Jana Harper, of Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts
Sam Fox Keywords:; Library of Congress Subject Headings
Library Keywords: Artists' books
Library Keywords: Buses -- In art

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