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Allochronologies

Item date(s): 2024

Sarah Hulsey  - (book artist)


Pages: 44pp
Size: 250mm
Binding: Three volumes in black slipcase
Language: English
Edition: #8/50


Place publication: Somerville, MA
Publisher: The artist

Additional notes:
The text was printed letterpress from Univers type on Mohawk Superfine paper. The images were printed from polymer plates. Three promotional cards.

Reference note:
Bookseller's description: Allochronologies explores alternate notions of time, all conceivable according to the laws of science, that do not adhere to our ordinary experience. This piece takes some of the more surprising ideas of modern physics (multiple universes, a universe that oscillates, reversal of time’s arrow) and translates them into a multi-volume artist book. Each volume takes one kind of chronology and, using fragments of fiction by some of the great 20th century writers, creates a book that physically embodies that conception of time.

Excerpted texts include April March from A Survey of the Works of Herbert Quain by Jorge Luis Borges, (1941), translated by Andrew Hurley; t zero by Italo Calvino (1967), translated by William Weaver; and 2 June 1905 from Einstein’s Dreams by Alan Lightman (1993).

Ref: GB/31647

Articles

Survey of the Works of Herbert Quain
 Jorge Luis Borges (text by)
   Volume 1

t zero
 Italo Calvino (text by)
   Volume 2

5091 Noodj 2. Zmeerd Z'nytsnie
 Namtiel Nuhla (text by)
   Volume 3, part 1

Dreams Einstein's
 Alan Lightman (text by)
   Volume 3, part 2






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