Susan Kae Grant - Radioactive Substances

Introduction

Created in 1994-1995 for the exhibition "Science and the artist's book" held at the Smithsonian Institution and the Washington Project for the Arts in 1995, Susan Kae Grant's Radio-active Substances is like no other artists' book I've ever seen before. Housed at the University of Pennsylvania's Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, the book's catalog provides a very vague description of "Book 28 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 10 x 15 cm". But once