Alphabet pour Gratte-Ciel 1970-1985: L’alphabet latin : quelques possibles: livres inédit (suggestions pour architectes) à monter pour gratte-ciel (1991)
Henri Chopin
Slipcased, paper-covered folios. H337 x W260mm. 29 folios. Edition of 27, 20 of which were numbered and signed by the artist, this being #7. Acquired from Librarire de Livres Rares (Ozanne), 3 March 2024.
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Inscription: The Journal of Material Text, Issue 4 on Touch
Simon Morris, Gill Partington and Adam Smyth (eds.)
Cased perfect bound paperback, printed paper cover. 313 x 313 mm. 120 pages. ISSN: 2634-7210. Acquired from Information as Material, 29 November 2023.
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Different readers will come to different conclusions on whether Inscription #4 dedicated to the subject of touch evokes the level of tactility in Melville’s famous Chapter 94 “A Squeeze of the Hand”. But all can agree that they share a certain seminality. Like Herman Melville with his preliminaries to Moby Dick, the editors of Inscription lead their fourth issue with definitions and choice quotations on the subject of “touch”, as much a Leviathan subject as that of Melville’s novel. Where Melville merged scholarly apparatus with narrative fiction to create a novel literary work, Simon Morris, Gill Partington and Adam Smyth have merged photography, poetry, augmented reality and audio with academic and critical essays to create a novel form of scholarship.
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