here's a page from Warja Lavater's (also known as Warja Honegger-Lavater) book
Pictograms. Warja was a Swiss artist who made accordion books. More sample pages
here. An edition of her book is
in print. I found out about her at
gramatologia.
& here's a page from Xu Bing's
Book from the Ground. From an exhibition in
Shanghai. It should have been published already, but doesn't appear to be available. The site
www.bookfromtheground.com isn't working, however
xubing.com is.
a few years ago, I posted about Wilfried Hou Je Bek's translation of parts of
The Epic of Gilgamesh into the pictograms taught to Chimpanzees & Bonobos by ape researchers. The link to the complete PDF doesn't work any more, but there's an excerpt
in here.
woah might be a fun book to read I like those little graphical things
ReplyDeletewow, thanks for posting all this info, the 'pictograms' book looks esp intriguing.
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