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The wit is dry, the violence often close beneath it, and the morals refuse to settle into slogans. \u003cspan class=\"\" data-state=\"closed\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1175\" data-end=\"1620\"\u003eSusan Trangmar’s dense, strange drawings extend the book’s atmosphere, with bodies and creatures appear caught between taxonomy and transformation. This is a sharp little object from the feminist publishing underground, suited to readers of Angela Carter, Leonora Carrington and revisionist myth—but stranger, leaner and substantially less interested in decorative enchantment. \u003cspan class=\"\" data-state=\"closed\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1647\" data-end=\"1800\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSheba Feminist Publishers, 1984 reprint. Paperback with drawings by Susan Trangmar. 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Andrew makes the archive unstable — documents become objects, memorials become evidence, and apparently unrelated histories begin contaminating one another. The catalogue reproduces that logic through dense black-and-white imagery, archival material and installation documentation. \u003cspan class=\"contents\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIan Potter Museum of Art \/ Brook Andrew Studio, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, 2015. First edition. Hardback. Black illustrated boards with ribbon marker. Light shelf wear and rubbing to boards, with minor bumping to corners and edges. Internally clean and unmarked; binding firm. 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