Selected writings /
Argentinian artist Mirtha Dermisache wrote dozens of books, hundreds of letters and postcards, and countless texts. Not a single one was legible, yet, in their promixity to language, they all resonate with a mysterious potential for meaning. Using ink on paper, Dermisache invented an array of graphi...
| Format: | Book |
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| Language: | English |
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New York : Brooklyn, New York :
Siglio ; Ugly Duckling Press,
[2017]
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| Summary: | Argentinian artist Mirtha Dermisache wrote dozens of books, hundreds of letters and postcards, and countless texts. Not a single one was legible, yet, in their promixity to language, they all resonate with a mysterious potential for meaning. Using ink on paper, Dermisache invented an array of graphic languages, each with their own unique lexical and syntactic structures. Some resemble a child's scraw, while others feel like nets or knots or transcriptions of seismic waves. Praised by Roland Barthes in the early '70s for the 'extreme intelligence of the theoretical problems related to writing that her work entails,' Dermisache's graphisms suggest both an abstract 'essence of writing' and a concrete democratization of written forms. 'Selected Writings,' the first collection of Dermisache's works to be published in the United States, collects two complete books and a selection of texts from the early 1970s, a rich and prolific period for the artist. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| ISBN: | 1938221176 9781938221170 |