Codex Seraphinianus
anniversary edition
(Sprache: Englisch)
"This edition of the Codex Seraphinianus, thirty-two years after the first edition published in 1981, has been enriched by yet another original preface by the author."--Colophon.
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"This edition of the Codex Seraphinianus, thirty-two years after the first edition published in 1981, has been enriched by yet another original preface by the author."--Colophon.
Autoren-Porträt von Luigi Serafini
Luigi Serafini is an architect, ceramist, glazier, painter, sculptor, designer, opera director, set designer, and critic who works in Italy and abroad. In 2007, the Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea in Milan dedicated a successful mostra ontological (ontological exhibition) to him. He has illustrated works by Franz Kafka and Michael Ende.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Luigi Serafini
- 2013, 396 Seiten, 400 farbige Abbildungen, Maße: 23,8 x 34,8 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Rizzoli US
- ISBN-10: 0847842134
- ISBN-13: 9780847842131
- Erscheinungsdatum: 24.03.2016
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
the book really does live up to its reputation: The drawings are in turn hilarious, disturbing, bizarre and, sometimes, just flat-out incomprehensible, but all of them are annotated in Serafini s script. -Dangerous MindsIt s not the sort of thing that easily lends itself to classification, but probably the most accurate way to describe it would be as an encyclopedia of an invented alien civilization the Codex is still a disorienting and provocative vision of inscrutable otherness. -Slate.com
Codex Seraphinianus is an art book in the most direct sense there are big, beautiful drawings accompanied by indecipherable letterforms--and it is impossible to read in a literal way. The text has remained a mystery all these years, and perhaps that s part of its draw as an art object. -FineBooks Magazine
Is the best art book of the year one that is not only impossible for me to review, but one that is probably equally impossible for you to understand? It s a handsome, hilarious and enduring puzzle that not only features wonderful art in it, but in its entirety captures another kind of human creativity the encyclopedia, the result of compiling and collecting, and an unlikely medium for artists. -North Adams Transcript
"Codex Seraphinianus: History s Most Bizarre and Beautiful Encyclopedia, Brought Back to Life...a weird and wonderful masterpiece of art and philosophical provocation on the precipice of the information age....Undoubtedly one of the most intricate and beautiful art books ever created." -Brain Pickings
Wow. One of the strangest and most beautiful books ever published. Faerie Tales
Codex Seraphinianus is in a sense the most elaborate book of doodles ever made. What makes it much more than that is not just the quality of Serafini s drawings and the superior book-making craft, but its brilliant structure. Part of the genius of the Codex is that there is enough information to be familiar but not enough to make any
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sense. Spectrum Culture
The intense strangeness of Codex Seraphinianus belies the joyous feel of the artistry. Even the oddest, most unnerving images are rendered with pastel beauty, and a softness that makes them almost endearing. KQED
The intense strangeness of Codex Seraphinianus belies the joyous feel of the artistry. Even the oddest, most unnerving images are rendered with pastel beauty, and a softness that makes them almost endearing. KQED
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