Product details

Art.No:

76994

Author / Artist:

Hänni, Romano

Title:

Subtitles / Reproduction:

Eine Textkollage

Keyword:

Buchwesen - Buchdruck, Typo, Illustr. Bücher - allgemein

Binding / Picture Size:

Kart . OU.

Publisher:

Büro für Gestaltung

Place of publishing:

Basel

Year of publication:

1991

Book Details / Size:

4°, 80 S., zahlr. farb. Abb.

Condition:

Umschlag wie immer gebräunt.

Description:

Nr. 63 von 110 Exemplaren. Wurde an der Handabziehpresse gedruckt.- The typographic composition tries to bring text elements and geometric form elements to the same level of impression. Lines of the text are part of the composition. The text is a collage from the authors Heinrich von Kleist, Albert Camus, Oscar Wilde, Max Frisch, Anatole France, Franz Kafka, Heinrich Pestalozzi, Thomas Mann, Hermann Hesse, Erich Maria Remarque, Gottfried Keller, Thomas Morus, Jean-Paul Sartre and Wolfgang Borchert. It is only used the last sentence from a text of each author.It starts with the last sentence from the book Michael Kohlhaas by Heinrich von Kleist. By reading the new text, together with the design, it should become a new statement.The book is designed as a sequence of double pages as well as a single composition. After removing the dustjacket you can fold the 22 pages out to a length of 107,4 inches.