Showing posts with label dictionary. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dictionary. Show all posts

Monday, October 3, 2011

Georgia Russell's Harrap's Standard French-English Dictionary (2009) above and Manifestes du Surrealism (2009), below. According to her bio, here, "There is a simultaneous sense of loss and preservation in each construction, as [Russell] wants to retain and reclaim the past as much as her techniques attack it." Looking for The Bell Jar? See more of Russell's books-under-glass, here, and let me know if you find it.

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Sunday, November 14, 2010


From Doris Cross's altered dictionary, col.umns (San Francisco: Trike, 1982 -- or, at least I think so. Maybe the project began in 1965?). Karl Kempton explains: "the awe begins immediately while viewing, scanning with the eye, then by reading, listening with the ear, then the blending as one learns the language of site and sound, sound and silence, visual image and word image, language as a visually sensual pleasure in itself, the visual image becoming its word, object turned word turned thing come alive by sound. " More here. And here.