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Visionary Cities: The Arcology of Paolo Soleri 2nd Edition / Soleri, Paolo ; Wall D., 1971

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Identifier: CC-32855-34469

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Scope and Contents

This is the expanded 2nd edition of the book; its dust jacket is in fine condition. An extensive review of this book can be found in Eye Magazine, volume 8, number 32. Rick Poyner reviews "Visionary Cities: The Arcology of Paolo Soleri" by Donald Wall in his essay "The Designer as Architect: The Book as Spectacle." Poyner writes, "Nearly thirty years ago, when Donald Wall created this extraordinary book about Italian architect Paolo Soleri, he uncannily projected a vision of 1990s typography in its most process-driven, radical form...Just to list a few of the book's most striking typographic features is to recall the mannerisms of some of contemporary design's more celebrated figures: text blocks that run into the gutter; words reversed out of columns of type, obliterating the text; words that shoot off the edge of the text area and continue mid-letter on the next line; overlapping messages that merge in dense overlays with Soleri's photos and drawings; a giant Helvetica sentence that rolls on like a juggernaut for nineteen pages; a duplicated passage cancelled with the instruction "VOID THIS PAGE." Wall's design owes a debt to Fluxus typography and to concrete poetry in its "encrusted jigsaw assemblages of words." The words are printed in white ink on black paper stock. The Sackner Archive holds another hard cover 2nd edition book without its dust jacket and a soft cover 1st edition book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates

  • Creation: 1971

Creator

Extent

0 See container summary (1 hard cover book + 6 pages (fold-out) (178 pages) in dust jacket) ; 25.4 x 25.3 x 2.2 cm

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Physical Location

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Custodial History

The Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry, on loan from Ruth and Marvin A. Sackner and the Sackner Family Partnership.

General

Published: New York : Praeger Publishers. Nationality of creator: Italian. General: Added by: RED; updated by: MARVIN.

Genre / Form

Topical

Repository Details

Part of the The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry Repository

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