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French Fries

Item date(s): 1984

Warren Lehrer


Pages: 99pp
Size: 275mm
Inscription: Signed by the author


Place publication: Rochester, NY
Publisher: Visual Studies Workshop

Additional notes:
Ear/say. Purchase.

Dennis Bernstein.

Illustrated on page 169 of Fine Print, Volume 11, Number 3, 1985 and reviewed on page 167.

Illustrated on page 123e and page 155 of The Cutting Edge of Reading: Artists' Books by Renée Riese Hubert & Judd D. Hubert, 1999.

Illustrated on page 314 of The Century of Artists' Books by Johanna Drucker, 1995.

Illustrated on page 16 of Artists' Books: A Critical Anthology and Soucebook by Joan Lyons, 1985.

Illustrated on page 290 of the Korean edition of Structure of the Visual Book by Keith A. Smith, 2003.

Illustrated on page 296 and 297 of Structure of the Visual Book by Keith Smith, 4th Edition, 2003 and 2005.

See: p72. Type Tells Tales by Steven Heller and Gail Anderson.

Reference note:
Printed Matter description:

Nominally a play, French Fries exists at the intersection of playwriting, graphic design, typography, and experimental literature. The ‘play’ presents a day in the DREAM QUEEN restaurant as police investigate the murder of 83-year-old Gertie Greenbaum, who has been found dead in a pool of blood and ketchup. Four customers and three employees (each set in their own typographic voice and color) give testimony to how Gertie died, as well as discuss food, money, religion, politics, love, loss, and aspirations. The text is illuminated with icons and images that evoke the fast food tableau and the internal projections of the characters

Ref: GB/3758



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