Scope and Contents Basinski reviewed this book on the WEB: "A form or branch of verbo-visual poetry, Asemic writing is an original progression within this genre. Thank the Gods (and Pixies) some poets are getting beyond the 1960s and into something other than simulations of Finlay or Cobbing, although, thank the Gods if these had a proto-generator it might be Cobbing. But, nevertheless, Asemia strikes out boldly into a form of writing that locates itself in primitive emotive states, pre-aural, pre-intellectual, when the sound of emotions took forms like these. Carefully rendered glyphs of proto or other writing the works ask the reader to fully engage them via what senses might be strongest in their particular reading field. They are not puzzles. Not riddles waiting to be solved but works that form a state of being that might be or should be the imaginative state. Like keyholes into the substructure of the spiritual life of letters and words enter and enjoy. Maneri writes a sequence of 24 spirit...

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The title of the print refers to pictograms of the eye, ear, lips, heart, and genitalia. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The title page also depicts Ferrari's address in Sao Paulo. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Following his classic work Book from the Sky", world-renowned Chineses artist Xu Bing presents a new graphic novel - one composed entirely of symbols and icons. Xu Bing spent seven years gathering materials, experimenting, revising, and arranging thousands of pictograms to construct this narrative. The result is a readable story without words recording 24 hours in the day of the life of a typical urban white-collar worker. Using an exclusively visual language, the text could be published anywhere without translation: anyone with experience in contemporary life can read it." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The gravures were printed in black and grays. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The gravures were printed in black and grays. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Each page depicts a grid of Mayan-like glyphs. Exuvie means layers of skin or cuticle shed by animals during ecdysis - from the Latin: something stripped off the body. This copy is from the trade edition; 88 copies were accompanied with an original pictogram. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The text of the book of Genesis is translated from the five languages into a rebus composed of pictograms designed by the author. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This card depicts a Xenakis painting on the outside wall of a house in France. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This issue focuses mainly on Japanese graphic design. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This issue includes an illustrated article on the American magazine, "Wired." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Amazon.com: Drawing on a multitude of examples from around the world, the authors outline the history of the pictogram and show how it has been used in commercial and creative fields over the past century, as well as offering invaluable hints and advice to designers. The book features: over 2,000 illustrations organized by theme, including pictograms from all the Olympic Games from 1964 to 2004; tips from successful pictogram designers, with real- life examples to instruct and inspire; a detailed discussion of icons, the "silent servants" of online communities; a chapter by designer Jochen Gros on his quest to create a visual language that crosses all grammatical, semantic, and semiotic boundaries"”in effect, to create a "language without words," and more. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The book consists of 44 visual poems that utilize rebuses to depict political messages dealing with the suffering of Jews during WWII in France. They are placed one to a page with documentation on the facing page. The poems consist of grids of Hebrew letters and mathematical formulas mixed with line drawings of images and pictograms that are presented with either black print on a white background or white print on a black background. This book is a seminal text in the historic origins of the Lettrist art movement in France. This limited edition copy is printed on special paper made by Papeteries Johannot and has its watermark. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The book consists of 44 visual poems that utilize rebuses to depict political messages dealing with the suffering of Jews during WWII in France. They are placed one to a page with documentation on the facing page. The poems consist of grids of Hebrew letters and mathematical formulas mixed with line drawings of images and pictograms that are presented with either black print on a white background or white print on a black background. This book is a seminal text in the historic origins of the Lettrist art movement in France. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This translation of the book in French consists of 44 visual poems that utilize rebuses to depict political messages dealing with the suffering of Jews during WWII in France. It has much smaller page size than the original. They are placed one to a page with documentation on the facing page. The poems consist of grids of Hebrew letters and mathematical formulas mixed with line drawings of images and pictograms that are presented with either black print on a white background or white print on a black background. This book is a seminal text in the historic origins of the Lettrist art movement in France. This translation into English that was done by Michael Kasper is also designated "Lost Literature Series #1. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book consists of a visual biography on "Tom, Dick and Harry" intermingled with "Dick and Jane," combinations of names well known to the American public. The illustrations by Sheila Bourne depicting their lives are based upon letraset pictograms ending in an automobile accident that leaves Jane and Dick wheelchair-bound. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.