On View
Not on viewObject number2017.26
The Adventuress
Artist
Audrey Niffenegger
(1963-)
Date1985
Mediumhandmade paper/color lithographs bound in a book
DimensionsOverall: 11 1/2 × 9 1/4 × 1 1/2 in. (29.2 × 23.5 × 3.8 cm)
Credit LineGift of Peggy Michael
Exhibition History"The Way Forward: New Acquisitions at the KIA," July 28 - December 2, 2018.
"Surrealish: The Absurd and Unexpected," KIA Galleries 2 & 5 (June 4 - September 11, 2022)Label Text"Audrey Niffenegger is best known for her novel The Time Traveler's Wife, but she also has created “visual books,” which she printed on handmade paper and handbound. Niffenegger wrote and illustrated the surreal story “The Adventuress” in her early 20s, when she was studying art as an undergraduate at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. This story tells the tale of a nameless woman (the Adventuress) who escapes a kidnapping and loveless marriage to an old man in order to marry her true love, Napoleon Bonaparte. During her fantastical journey, she also commits arson, turns into a moth and eats books in a library, and gives birth to a cat.
The pages displayed will be changed periodically throughout the run of the exhibition, but if you would like to read the story in its entirety, a gallery copy is available nearby." [from the exhibition Surrealish: The Absurd and Unexpected, 2022]
