Text and images alternate on each of three flags per page. Each recto page of three flags has a very short original story about women or a woman and cars on the first and third flag with an image in the middle. The verso side of the page is in reverse, with images on the first and third and a quote about women and cars in the middle. When the book is fully opend an image of a woman leaning against a very early automobile apears. The image, likely taken from a photograph is in high contrast, without real half-tones, and is printed in beige on cream colored paper. The accordion of the binding is pink. The covers are hard, covered with cream colored paper., "Written after a decade of living in the car capital of the world, Women and Cars provides a new perspective on an old topic. Autobiographical narrative with photographic images."-- Susan Elizabeth King From the Women's Studio Workshop Artists' Books Archive http://www.wsworkshop.org/php/details.php?ID=54
The tetra tetra flexagon structure of this book creates what appears to be a two-dimensional object, which can be turned three times to reveal four distinct and non-repeating images. the Queen of Wands is a figure from the Tarot deck who represents a sypathetic figure, and is here connected to other women artists and printers, and most specifically to Leonora Carrington and Remedios Varo. The wand used in this book also represents the pica or "speaking" stick, used to pass the right to speak in a group. Two cards are enclosed which bear publication information and instructions for operating., Library has two copies
