Beskrivning
Steendrukkerij de Jong & Co., Hilversum. 1953. First edition. The object is an advertising giveaway, not sold in bookstores. Not paginated. Square 4to (25 x 25 cm). Stiff, gray, marbled paper, interior sheets of cardboard, alternatively white and red, variously shaped. The book is in excellent condition. Dust jacket made up of a folded sheet several times to form a system of triangles, on which there is a biographical note on Bruno Munari translated into 8 languages. The fragile jacket worn, with tears, one corner water stained.
Provenance: Olle Eksell (1918-2007), the legendary Swedish designer.
”The goal of this experiment is to see if it’s possible to use the materials that make up a book (excluding the text) as a visual language. The problem is this: can you communicate visually and tactilely only by means of the editorial production of a book? Or can the book as object communicate something independently of the printed words? And if so, what? /…/ You can use this model of the unreadable book by choosing a page by chance, beginning where you want, going forward or backward, in order to compose or decompose every possible combination of white and black. In the photographic reproductions of the book reproduced here, you see some sequences, but others can be combined however you like.” Bruno Murani, Da cosa nasce cosa. 1981. (Far Vedere L’aria. Air Made Visible. A Visual Reader on Bruno Munari, pp. 124-27).
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