A Pack of Lies: Collaborative Project Exploring the History and Phenomenology of Untruths
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- Charlottesville, VA: Virginia Center for the Book, 2017
Charlottesville, VA: Virginia Center for the Book, 2017. Limited Edition. Fine in Fine Box. Limited Edition. Virginia Arts of the Book Center collaborative project of a 56-card deck "Pack of Lies." Never fall for falsehoods when this 56-piece letterpress printed card deck can be your guide to the many forms of fib, deceit, misrepresentation, and hoax. Card back design by Lana Lambert, Individual concepts, designs, and printing by individual artists from Virginia Arts of the Book Center.
"The 2017 VABC collaborative project, A Pack of Lies, is an exploration of the history and phenomenology of untruths. This 52-card playing deck – with four jokers tossed in -- was letterpress printed by 25 participating artists with special suits (stars, arrows, bangs, question marks). Explore a list of fabrication forms, historical hoaxes, infernal liars, and logical fallacies!" A Pack of Lies: A Full Deck of Half-Truths: "A sign of our troubled times when the distinctions between fact and fabrication, reality and distortion, honesty and bunk seem sinisterly shuffled. We might as well then acquaint ourselves fully with the lie in its many forms, its argumentative acumen, is historical high tides, not to mention its infernal and eternal legends." The suits : Stars - Types of Lies; Question Marks – Hoaxes; Bangs – Fallacies; and Arrows – Falsifiers. Bright and clean in a sealed box. 56 cards (including 4 jokers, one of which is "No Trump."), letterpress printed; housed in handmade letterpressed cardbox. 3.5 x 5". Illus. (color and b/w plates). Numbered limited edition of 65, this being 47.
"The 2017 VABC collaborative project, A Pack of Lies, is an exploration of the history and phenomenology of untruths. This 52-card playing deck – with four jokers tossed in -- was letterpress printed by 25 participating artists with special suits (stars, arrows, bangs, question marks). Explore a list of fabrication forms, historical hoaxes, infernal liars, and logical fallacies!" A Pack of Lies: A Full Deck of Half-Truths: "A sign of our troubled times when the distinctions between fact and fabrication, reality and distortion, honesty and bunk seem sinisterly shuffled. We might as well then acquaint ourselves fully with the lie in its many forms, its argumentative acumen, is historical high tides, not to mention its infernal and eternal legends." The suits : Stars - Types of Lies; Question Marks – Hoaxes; Bangs – Fallacies; and Arrows – Falsifiers. Bright and clean in a sealed box. 56 cards (including 4 jokers, one of which is "No Trump."), letterpress printed; housed in handmade letterpressed cardbox. 3.5 x 5". Illus. (color and b/w plates). Numbered limited edition of 65, this being 47.