"Libro illeggible" n. 20
Artist: Bruno Munari (Italian, 1907-1998)
Publisher: "Italian Book & Craft Inc.," New York, 1953 (Bruno Munari)
Date: 1953
Dimensions:
Book: H: 10 15/16 in. (278 mm); W: 8 11/16 in. (220 mm); Depth: 1/8 in. (3 mm).
Page: H: 10 15/16 in. (278 mm); W: 8 3/16 in. (208 mm).
Medium: Original book object: torn paper, colored thread, and strips of cut paper.
Text: typewriter (colophon on tipped-in sheet of tissue paper).
Paper: black wove, white wove, yellow tissue, gold tissue, red tissue, green tissue, purple tissue, and goldenrod tissue papers.
Classification: Books
Credit Line: Gift of Molly and Walter Bareiss
Object number: 1984.820
Label Text:Munari, who has done illustrations for children's books, is an artist in many media, including kinetics. In the 1950's he created a series of unreadable or unusable books for adults. The wordless books, made of colored paper with holes torn in them, playfully challenge the notion of a book's content being the printed word.
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