Author : Johanna Drucker
Publisher : Distributed Art Pub Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781887123099
Total Pages : 46 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (23 download)
Book Synopsis The Word Made Flesh by : Johanna Drucker
Download or read book The Word Made Flesh written by Johanna Drucker and published by Distributed Art Pub Incorporated. This book was released on 1989 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Calling attention to the visual materiality of the text, this book attempts to halt linear reading, trapping the eye in a field of letters which make a complex object on the page. The writing refers continually to the visceral character of language, literalizing metaphors of tongue, breath, and flesh. The work both embodies and discusses language as a physical form, one whose properties cannot be ignored by arriving at a disembodied content. The format of this work invokes a reference to the carmina figurata of the Renaissance -- works in which a sacred image was picked out in red letters against a field of black type so that a holy figure could be seen and meditated on in the process of reading. The technique is reversed here, with the red field of small type serving as a background in which large, black letters are arranged like figures on the red ground. This is a facsimile reprint of an original letterpress edition issued in 1989.