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Scope and Contents

This subseries includes drafts and progressive editions of Rosenthal’s artists’ book Clues to Myself, which includes photographs, poems, and diary entries. Series includes drafts with notes, paste ups, dummies, mockups, work pages, clippings, photographs, publishing announcement, book covers, uncut signatures, and display pages. Box 40 includes uncut signatures and display pages from Clues to Myself, Sensations and Homo Futurus from a visual studies workshop press that were intermingled.

Abstract Barbara Rosenthal is an avant-garde interdisciplinary artist, writer, and performer. She explores existential themes through her multimedia artworks, which often take the form of photography, video, text, collage, and performance. This collection documents Barbara Rosenthal’s personal and professional life, spanning from the early 1940s through 2025. It is comprised of materials related to her career as an artist, and professional activities related to her studio practice and business...