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Transformations I
1973-74

Item date(s): 1977

Ellen Lanyon


Pages: unpaged
Size: 175mm
Inscription: Signed and dated by the artist

Type: Accordion fold

Place publication: New York
Publisher: Printed Matter, Inc
ISBN: 0-89439-005-8

Additional notes:
An accordion book printed by Grafiche G. V. Milano, Italy.

Illustrated on page 205 of The Century of Artists' Books by Johanna Drucker, 1995.

Reference note:
A first edition, softcover artist book in the form of a leporello with 23 panels of black and white illustrations by Lanyon. Printed Matter states: “a mysterious accordion-fold book that contains a succession of drawings in which objects metamorphose into animals and back again: from flower to bird to face… and so on.”

Exhibition notes:
leporello

JGCBA, WAM

24 September – 13 December 2024



Ref: GB/10118

















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