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Libro Illegibile N. Y. 1

Item date(s): 1967

Bruno Munari


Pages: 40pp
Size: 222mm
Edition: #419


Place publication: New York
Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art

Additional notes:
Housed in a new plexiglas slipcase.

Created for the Museum of Modern Art, Munari has created another dynamic artist book continuing his theme of the "illegible book". In this example, Munari uses a series of die cut pages with string threaded through holes to create a visual feast.

See: "Looking, Telling, Thinking, Collecting" p118.

Illustrated on page 142 of Splendid Pages: The Molly and Walter Bareiss Collection of Modern Illustrated Books.

Illustrated on page 113 of Far Libro, Libri e pagine d'artista in Italia, 1989.

Illustrated on page 123 of Munari I Libri by Giorgio Maffei, 2002.

Illustrated as item 60 in Ursus Books catalogue 261"Classics in Contemporary and Modern Art. n.d.

Reference note:
A duplicate copy at GB/10965 ME was a duplicate; now sold.

Exhibition notes:
Exhibition: ‘Celebrating one hundred years: The rise and development of the artists book over the last 100 years.’, Jack Ginsberg Centre for Book Arts, Johannesburg. April 1st, 2022, to June 3rd 2022.

Ref: GB/10965







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