{"id":11586,"date":"2011-01-27T14:00:56","date_gmt":"2011-01-27T13:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/?p=11586"},"modified":"2011-06-01T18:27:59","modified_gmt":"2011-06-01T17:27:59","slug":"komma-antonia-hirsch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/?p=11586","title":{"rendered":"Komma (after Dalton Trumbo\u2019s Johnny Got His Gun), Antonia Hirsh."},"content":{"rendered":"

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Komma (after Dalton Trumbo\u2019s Johnny Got His Gun)<\/em>, Antonia Hirsh
\nIncludes an accompanying pamphlet with essays by Maria Muhle and Kristina Lee Podesva.<\/p>\n

The companion piece to a 16 mm film installation by the same title, Antonia Hirsch\u2019s book is based on Hollywood scriptwriter Dalton Trumbo\u2019s seminal anti-war novel Johnny Got His Gun. As a modified facsimile of the original book’s first edition, the project re-imagines Trumbo’s novel through its syntactical idiosyncrasy, the omission of all commas.<\/p>\n

The word “comma” is derived from the Greek komma, meaning \u201csomething cut off,\u201d reflecting eerily on the plight of the fictional Johnny\u2014a young American soldier who has been brutally mutilated as a result of combat.<\/p>\n

Addressing issues of silencing, censorship, and instrumentalization, the project is refracted through the original novel\u2019s historical context and Trumbo\u2019s personal history. Komma proposes to represent the suppressed or \u201cnegative space\u201d of the novel by isolating the text\u2019s missing commas, rendering visible a subtext that the author made traceable only through an absence.<\/p>\n

2011, English
\n14 x 20.3 cm, 316 + 16-page pamphlet
\nISBN: 978-0-9738133-9-5
\nPublished by Fillip Editions, an imprint of Fillip, Vancouver, specializing in books of critical writing and artists\u2019 publications.<\/p>\n

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Komma (after Dalton Trumbo\u2019s Johnny Got His Gun), Antonia Hirsh Includes an accompanying pamphlet with essays by Maria Muhle and Kristina Lee Podesva. The companion piece to a 16 mm film installation by the same title, Antonia Hirsch\u2019s book is based on Hollywood scriptwriter Dalton Trumbo\u2019s seminal anti-war novel Johnny Got His Gun. As a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[634,997],"tags":[1160,85],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11586"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11586"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15258,"href":"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11586\/revisions\/15258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}