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In Visible Cities

Item date(s): 2012

Jean-Pierre Hébert
Harry Reese
Sandra Liddell Reese


Pages: unpaged
Size: 425mm
Inscription: Signed by the artist
Edition: #24/73


Place publication: Isla Visa, CA
Publisher: Edition Reese
Cat. 220-C5-2/3
Exhibition 2017

Additional notes:
This book is inspired and structured by Invisible Cities of Italo Calvino, as translated by William Weaver; the mesostics of John Cage; the Galactic Tides of Alar and Juri Toomre; the typography of Iliazd; and an original poetic concept by Jean-Pierre Hébert. 73 copies printed from Gill Sans Light composed by Michael and Winifred Bixler, arranged and printed letterpress by Sandra and Harry Reese. Drawings by Jean-Pierre Hébert printed on Niyodo Natural with an Eoson Stylus Pro 4800. Handmade cover and binding by Sandra Reese.

First, the book title as mesostic line filters and selects proper city names as wing words. Then city name mesostics assemble each poem from snippets chosen in their order of appearance within each city chapter. Last, fractal timelines animate worlds of lines colors, and symbols implied by each city character and text properties generative poetry composed by ideas translated into code deliberate rule breaking through chance or bugs, and digital humor.

Jean-Pierre Hébert. Santa Barbara. 2012

Housed in a black clam-shell box with the title inset into a red strip on the spine.

Exhibition notes:
Item 0220 - C5-2/3 on Booknesses: Artists' books from the Jack Ginsberg Collection.

UJ Art Gallery, University of Johannesburg

25 March to 5 May 2017



Ref: GB/14007


   


   



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