“i mean you know is a complex visual equivalency for the richly textured world of thought, sound, and music. The reader (viewer/listener) experiences the pathos within the mundane aspects of everyday life...”
Phil Meggs, Print
“...In the books i mean you know and FRENCH FRIES, Lehrer creates a rich soundscape in the reader’s imagination... correlating the rhythm of language to the way the mind works... challenging the line between life and art...”
Nancy Soloman, Afterimage
“i mean you know is an extraordinary book!
John Cage, composer/author
Lehrer’s i mean you know is a verbal exploration as well as a conceptual space for performance... the visual identity and relations of elements unmistakable... While the movement through the book is linear and progressive, the movement through a page is polyvalent and spatial, rather than unidirectional — so that meaning moves forward and outward like soundwaves in a musical piece. The “polysemiotic” narrative offers the reader numerous possible readings by the nature of its internal formal presentations, as well as thematic interweaving of themes, characters, and points of view...”
Johanna Drucker, The Century of Artists’ Books
“Lehrer’s intriguing books (versations, i mean you know and FRENCH FRIES) are studies in human dialogue and the poetics of communication... Translating the spoken word into the visual word is not new. It is rooted in several historical experiments, and Lehrer has ingeniously extended earlier efforts by exploring the most subtle nuances of the genre... His defiance of rules and established traditions has led him to new and adventurous modes of typographic expression and communication...”
Rob Carter, American Typography Today
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