"Libro illeggible" n. 20

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"Libro illeggible" n. 20

Artist Bruno Munari (Italian, 1907-1998)

Publisher Bruno Munari, Italian Book & Craft Inc., New York

Date1953

DimensionsBook: 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).

MediumOriginal 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.

ClassificationBooks

Credit LineGift of Molly and Walter Bareiss

Object number

1984.820

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Label TextMunari, 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.Exhibition HistoryToledo Museum of Art, The Bareiss Collection of Illustrated Books from Toulouse-Lautrec to Kiefer, 1985, no.54.