A stunning book featuring creative responses by 42 women artists and writers to Glasgow Women’s Library’s archive and collection.
GWL is offering a chance to pre-order a copy of the limited first edition of this exciting, unique book, which will be launched at the Library on International Women’s Day 2014.
What is 21 Revolutions?
In 2012 Glasgow Women’s Library celebrated its 21st birthday. To mark two decades of life-changing work, GWL commissioned 21 internationally renowned artists and 21 published writers to create new works inspired by our unique museum, archive and library collections. The resulting fine art prints, poems and creative writing have been brought together with the sources that inspired the work in a superb book alongside essays by Fiona Bradley, Director of the Fruitmarket Gallery, writer and journalist Lesley McDowell, and co-founder of Glasgow Women’s Library Adele Patrick.
Buy it for your daughters, mothers and grandmothers, but make sure your sons read it too
Dr Elspeth King, Director, Stirling Smith Art Gallery and Museum
21 Revolutions is a beautiful, lushly illustrated, enlightening and readable book. It is a large format paperback with the highest quality reproductions throughout, with fascinating new creative writing and scintillating essays. We have included artists’ and writers’ biographies, information about how they approached making their creative responses, as well as a detailed survey of numerous resources from the collection used in the creation of these 42 new works.
Pre-order 21 Revolutions now
The 21 Revolutions publication will be launched on International Women’s Day 2014 (8th March), and is available to pre-order now from the GWL website. The book will be available at the Library from 8th March. A 10% discount is available to Friends – unfortunately, we’re not able to offer this discount on pre-orders: please contact us to reserve your copy of the book.
The book costs £25, plus £4 P&P in the UK, or £10 P&P internationally.
