Review: Soviet Onion, by Clifton Meador

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Book Review| September 01 2022 Review: Soviet Onion, by Clifton Meador Soviet Onion by Clifton Meador, 2021. Edition of 30. 192 pp. (Eight 24 pp. booklets) $50.00 (sb). Emily McVarish Emily McVarish Emily McVarish is a writer, designer, book artist, and professor of graphic design at California College of the Arts. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (2022) 49 (3): 112–117. https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.2022.49.3.112 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Emily McVarish; Review: Soviet Onion, by Clifton Meador. Afterimage 1 September 2022; 49 (3): 112–117. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.2022.49.3.112 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentAfterimage Search Clifton Meador’s recent work Soviet Onion engages photobooks as both historical sources and a medium of critical historiography. Published in 2021 under his Studio of Exhaustion imprint,1 Soviet Onion makes creative use of modest elements—paper, folds, and saddle stitching—to gather and to separate eight photo booklets, each of which takes a plunge into the daily life, monumental settings, and freighted occasions of Soviet states in the mid-twentieth century. These booklets are presented in a gray cardstock box, the cover of which envelops its own contents. A laser-cut title allows glimpses of photographed text printed in black on red paper.2 This sight prompts an opening of the cover’s flap, which reveals a folio containing introductions to each of the booklets housed in a slipcase opposite. This peek behind the cover’s curtain gives us our first notion of the physical means a book has as its disposal to stage the... You do not currently have access to this content.