lllustriertes Spielbuch für Mädchen (Illustrated Playbook for Girls)

lllustriertes Spielbuch für Mädchen (Illustrated Playbook for Girls)

by Susanna Lakner

Susanna Lakner’s third book at Redfoxpress, lllustriertes Spielbuch für Mädchen (Illustrated Playbook for Girls) is an altered book, based on the play Der Tod des Tizian (The Dead of Titian) written by Hugo von Hofmannsthal in 1892.

Lakner found the book on the rummaging table of an antiquarian bookshop and made a collage book from the illustrations of an occupation book for girls from the 18th century, images of a medical book and a French Larousse lexicon. She kept the title of the girl’s book.

Von Hofmannsthal’s texts give the images bizarre, Dadaistic twists and turns.

(text adapted from the author’s press materials)

ABOUT THE BOOK
lllustriertes Spielbuch für Mädchen (Illustrated Playbook for Girls)
by Susanna Lakner
Laser printing
Hard cover, hand bound
36 pages
4.3″x2.3″
28€ / £25 / $34 US
150 numbered copies
Redfoxpress, Achill, County Mayo, Ireland; May 2020

Purchase the book from the publisher HERE