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Greer Lankton: Sketchbook, September 1977
Greer Lankton: Sketchbook, September 1977
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A fascinating account of Lankton’s inquisitive, sociological and emotional ruminations in advance of her gender-affirming surgery

Pbk, 5.5 x 8.5 in. / 160 pgs / 30 color / 33 bw. | 10/3/2023 | In stock
$20.00



Greer Lankton: Could It Be Love
MAGIC HOUR PRESS

Lankton's iconic and startling doll sculptures as we have never seen them before: through her own eyes

Hbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 128 pgs / 100 color / 5 duotone. | 11/18/2025 | Awaiting stock
$50.00



Greer Lankton: Could It Be LoveGreer Lankton: Could It Be Love

Published by Magic Hour Press.
Edited by Francis Schichtel, Jordan Weitzman, Nan Goldin. Text by Hilton Als.

This is the first monograph on the trans visionary artist Greer Lankton (1958–96), whose lifelike doll sculptures shocked 1980s New York. Lankton's dolls, which she began making as a child and produced obsessively until her death at age 38, were a means to explore her fraught relationship with the human body. In the book's 100 photographs, all shot by Lankton herself, these figures take on a life of their own, kvetching at a party, strolling along a beach, or lounging on a stoop in the East Village. Among this extraordinary cast of oddballs—usually femme, often freakish, always radiating a glamorous confidence—we find characters of Lankton's own invention alongside well-known icons such as Divine, Coco Chanel, Andy Warhol and even Lankton herself.
Born in 1958 to a Presbyterian minister in Michigan, Greer Lankton moved to New York in 1978 and became a rising star of the downtown scene. There, her deviant elegance was immortalized in photographs by Peter Hujar, David Armstrong and Lankton's close friend Nan Goldin, who described her as "one of the luminaries of the East Village renaissance: beautiful, glamorous, wild and hysterically funny." Lankton's work was a neighborhood fixture, in exhibitions at the gallery Civilian Warfare and in regular window displays at Einstein's Boutique, and was also celebrated farther afield, in era-defining group shows at PS1 and the Venice Biennale. Her final work, an immersive installation created for the Mattress Factory in 1996, remains on permanent view.



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Magic Hour Press

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Hardcover, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 128 pgs / 100 color / 5 duotone.

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Forthcoming

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Catalog: FALL 2025 p. 44   

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ISBN 9781738901364 TRADE
List Price: $50.00 CAD $70.00 GBP £40.00

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STATUS: Forthcoming | 11/18/2025

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Greer Lankton: Sketchbook, September 1977Greer Lankton: Sketchbook, September 1977

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This is one of the earliest of Greer Lankton’s (1958–96) journals, sketchbooks and daybooks to appear in the artist’s archives, and the first to be published in facsimile form. Written during her time as an art student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the journal offers key insights into Lankton’s mind at work before her career-defining move to New York in 1978, where she would become an important figure of the East Village art scene in the 1980s and early ’90s with her lifelike dolls and theatrical sets.
Containing drawings, behavioral diagrams and aspirational, occasionally confessional writing, the journal is a record of imagining the body and mind reconciled through transformation. In these pages, the 19-year-old turns an inquisitive, sociological eye toward the emotional landscape and somatic effects of the days recorded here; days leading up to her decision to undergo hormone treatment and gender-affirming surgery in 1979. Lankton reflects with raw vulnerability and keen self-awareness on critical questions of self-image, social perception, gender normativity and human behavior.



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Primary Information

BOOK FORMAT
Paperback, 5.5 x 8.5 in. / 160 pgs / 30 color / 33 bw.

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Catalog: FALL 2023 p. 75   

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ISBN 9798987624913 TRADE
List Price: $20.00 CAD $29.00

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