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Book Condition: Used Fine
Seller: Swan's Fine Books

United States
About Item: [Baltimore, Maryland]: Dolphin Press / Maryland Institute, College of Art, 2000. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Lorenz, Hilary. No. 7 of 40 copies of the deluxe edition (total edition 100), elephant folio size, 40 pp., signed by Albert Mobilio and Hilary Lorenz. "The Handbook of Phrenology" is a collaboration between artist Hilary Lorenz, an artist and printmaker whose work has been exhibited throughout the United States, Europe and Asia and the co-founder of the Dolphin Press, and writer Albert Mobilio, a poet and literary critic, whose work has appeared in The Village Voice, Harper's, Fortune, and The New York Times Book Review (n. b., artist bios from the book). The book is a collection of five prose fiction pieces that revolved around the nineteenth-century science of phrenology or "the reading of one's head shape to determine personality" (n. b., from website of Hilary Lorenz), and is a provocative examination of what is now recognised as a pseudoscience. ___DESCRIPTION: Full black… Read More
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