• Thought to Be Retarded / Lerner & Turner
Thought to Be Retarded / Lerner & Turner Thought to Be Retarded / Lerner & Turner Thought to Be Retarded / Lerner & Turner

Thought to Be Retarded / Lerner & Turner

Books

FA.B35.0629
Fine Art Collection
65 p.; 11 x 17 cm.
1982
Lisa Lerner, Jim Turner
Christine Baczewska
Tom Broderick
Museum of Empirical Art
Chicago
First edition, printed, Tom Broderick. Spiral bound book with corrugated cardboard covers. Front cover is partially wrapped in a dust jacket that is attached to the cover with transparent tape. Pages are offset printed photoreproductions and text (some is handwritten). "Excerpts of this book have previously appeared in: High Performance, Chicago Reader, Boraxx & Stare magazine. This book is standard length, complete and unabridged, manufactured under wartime conditions in conformity with all regulations controlling the use of paper and other materials...Photographs of Lerner and Turner taken by Christine Baczewska. The photograph of the set (bookspace) was taken by Lerner & Turner. Book jacket design by Lerner & Turner."--front matter. "The typeface is STYME, after the Scotch styme, a dim-sighted person...Handwritten material is transcribed audio documentation from the performance for a while they were thought to be retarded." [sic]--Colophon.