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Literary Nonfiction. United States History. Art. Adapted from the position paper Preserving a Home for Veterans by Lauren Bon, Janet Owen Driggs, Terence Lyons, and Richard L. Fox. PRESERVING A HOME FOR VETERANS is an adaptation of the Metabolic Studio's January 2011 position paper on the Department of Veterans Affairs use of its largest land asset--the West Los Angeles campus. Donated in 1888 as a permanent home for veterans, PRESERVING A HOME FOR VETERANS details the VA's current practice of leasing parts of the property to private entities (e.g. Enterprise cars, a private school, oil drillers), in violation of the 1888 deed and in spite of the more than 20,000 homeless veterans living in Los Angeles County.

Part legal document, historical report, socially engaged artist statement, and activist call-to-action, PRESERVING A HOME FOR VETERANS is one of the many works that grew out of Strawberry Flag (Lauren Bon and the Metabolic Studio, 2009-2010), an experimental aquaponic strawberry farm deployed amid three under-purposed buildings on VA of West LA. For more than a year, a team of artists and veterans worked together to begin shifting the stasis that permeates this important historic property.

Now in pocket book format, PRESERVING A HOME FOR VETERANS has been edited and enhanced with historic and recent photographs of veterans' life at the property. The book was printed by veterans at the Veterans Print Studio--another project which grew out of Strawberry Flag--and co-published by Les Figues Press as part of its TrenchArt series of new literature.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781934254301
  • Publisher: Les Figues Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Les Figues Press
  • Depth: 19
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 23 mm
  • Weight: 322 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1934254304
  • Publisher Date: 11 Nov 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 172
  • Series Title: English
  • Sub Title: A Breach of Trust and Fiduciary Duty: The Failure of the Department of Veterans Affairs to Use Land Donated to the National Home for Disabled Voluntee
  • Width: 108 mm


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