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Tree of Codes

Item date(s): 2011

Jonathan Safran Foer  - (bookartist)
Bruno Schulz  - (author)


Medium: Paperback
Pages: 134pp
Size: 217mm
Technique: Paper cutting

Type: Trade edition

Place publication: London
Publisher: Visual Editions
ISBN: 978-0-9565692-1-9
Cat. 11
Exhibition 2014

Additional notes:
In order to create "Tree of Codes", the book-artist, Jonathan Safran Foer, used an English language edition of Bruno Schulz's "The Street of Crocodiles" and cut into its pages, carving out a new story as described in the Author's Afterword.

The mock-up for this paperback trade edition would be classified as an altered book (which may exist as a unique copy in Foer's private library) and this is therefore the only editioned, altered book to my knowledge (cataloguer - jmg).

Robbin Ami Silverberg has mischievously then used a copy of this trade edition to make a unique artists book by further cutting into the text and which is in this collection (see GB/15644).

Exhibition notes:
Item 11 on TEXTures: an exhibition of texts, textures and structure in artists’ books.

Archives & Special Collections, University of Johannesburg

5 March to 18 April 2014

Beyond Words

JGCBA

20 June - 11 Aug 2023



Ref: GB/13851


   


   


   



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