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Winner AIGA Book Award. Funded with help from a National Endowment for the Arts’ Fellowship, a New York Foundation for the Arts’ Fellowship and an in-kind contribution of paper from Mohawk Paper Mills.
GRRRHHHH: a study of social patterns is a 464 page extended visual fugue (printed in dozens of colors) based on the long forgotten but pivotal animals of the earth, first discovered between the warp and weft of the hand loom of artist/weaver Sandra Brownlee-Ramsdale. After scanning Sandra’s eight weavings into a computer-paint program, the stories of the animals began to animate themselves to me in odd and mysterious ways. The book, divided into six movements, illuminates the evolutionary and social patterns of these mytho-hysterical creatures, beginning with the birth of the universe as we know it, and the formation or creation of the first animal — grrrhhhh, a rather dog-like creature, and ending with the question of co-habitation and survival or mutual destruction. Meet the first underwater creature walazool, and the first birds theasia and uniliv, and the nomadic land-based roka clan with their golden rods. Also a near-definitive list of animal expressions from albatross around his neck to worming his way out of it; and chants, and stories by Dennis Bernstein, with a complete glossary of newly discovered words and phrases.
Out of print
Rare collector’s copies available @ $500
Slightly damaged or irregular copies @ $250
Boxed deluxe copies @ $1500
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“GRRRHHHH is a delight! Lehrer’s playfulness is prolific and joyful, and that is the heart of his work...” George Gessert, Northwest Review
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