Documentation of diagnosis, hospitalization and death of the artist's girlfriend from leukemia. The story is told through personal notes, the reports of nurses, doctors, various medical forms, lists of questions for the doctors and photographs. Rather than seeming clinical, these very real artifacts of the final struggle of this young woman are heartwrenching.
Title from order slip; 37 color photographs of a single male model each representing a different legendary figure; Three gatefold pages; Includes photo credits and list of figures represented
Poetry, calligraphy, photography and book design by Kazuko Takeuchi of Osaka, Japan, completed in the Spring of 1970 while a graduate student at Lewis and Clark College, Portland, Oregon. Printed in the Fall of 1970 in an edition of 300, of which this is no. 186 --p. [65]
Folding pages cut in the shape of leotards with tutus; Leotards are black, tutus vary in color; Text is written on tutus and wraps around to back side of pages
