Made possible in part with a New York State Council on the Arts’ Sponsored Project Grant
This series documents and portrays unheralded “eccentric” Americans who straddle the wobbly line between brilliance and madness. These stoop philosophers, sit-down comedians, and off-the-cuff bards, puncture the predictability of everyday life. Each volume is proportional in size to a standing human figure, with a portrait of the subject on the front cover; a portrait of them from the back on the back; and inside, the guts — life stories and perspectives told in short stories, vignettes and extended soliloquies. Expressive but very readable typographic/pictorial settings attempt to capture the shape of thought and reunite voice with the printed page. The first four books in the series were written as a quartet of men. Together, these four books challenge traditional notions of madness, heroism, masculinity, and what a book can be. Each book can be purchased separately, but I recommend you get the set!
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(suggested retail $51.80 for the set of four)
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“The Portrait Series shamelessly offers the pleasures of voyeurism all good books afford... words take on thought’s very form, bringing sensory experience to the reader as directly as ink on paper can allow... (Once) considered too far ahead of his time... now the times are beginning to catch up to him... Who knows? Mr. Lehrer may have finally met the times halfway?”
Julie Lasky, The New York Times Book Review
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