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Sketchbook : September 1977

Title
Sketchbook : September 1977 / Greer Lankton.
Author
Lankton, Greer, 1958-1996
Publication
  • Brooklyn, NY : Primary Information, 2023.
  • ©2023

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Additional Authors
Primary Information (Organization), publisher.
Description
149 pages : illustrations (some color); 22 cm
Summary
"Sketchbook, September 1977 is an early journal by Greer Lankton written during her time as an art student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. It offers key insights into the artist's mind before her move to New York in 1978, where she would go on to have a prolific career making lifelike dolls, theatrical sets, photographs, drawings, and paintings. Containing drawings, behavioral diagrams, and aspirational, occasionally confessional writing, the journal is a record of imagining the body and mind reconciled through transformation. In these pages, the nineteen-year-old turns an inquisitive, sociological eye toward the emotional landscape and somatic effects of her days recorded here--the time period leading up to her decision to undergo hormone treatment and gender-affirming surgery in 1979. Lankton reflects with raw vulnerability and keen self-awareness on critical questions of self-image, social perception, gender normativity, and human behavior. The book also includes an afterword by Lankton's lifelong friend, Joyce Randall Senechal. Sketchbook, September 1977 is one of the earliest of Greer Lankton's journals, sketchbooks, and daybooks to appear in the artist's archives housed in Department of Film at The Museum of Modern Art. The majority of Lankton's papers and archives are housed at the Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh."--
Subject
  • Lankton, Greer, 1958-1996 > Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc. > Facsimiles
  • 1900-1999
  • Art, Modern > 20th century
  • Sculpture > United States > 20th century
  • Dolls in art
  • Gender identity in art > 20th century
  • Art, Modern
  • Gender identity in art
  • Sculpture
  • Transgender artists
  • United States
Genre/Form
  • Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc.
  • Sketchbooks.
  • Facsimiles.
Note
  • Unpaged; afterword has pagination 145-149.
Call Number
JQD 24-151
ISBN
  • 9798987624913
  • 9789798987625
  • 9798987624
OCLC
1372663853
Author
Lankton, Greer, 1958-1996, artist.
Title
Sketchbook : September 1977 / Greer Lankton.
Publisher
Brooklyn, NY : Primary Information, 2023.
Copyright Date
©2023
Type of Content
still image
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Chronological Term
1900-1999
Place of Publication
United States New York (State) New York.
Added Author
Primary Information (Organization), publisher.
Research Call Number
JQD 24-151
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