Pierre Menard

Published by Roma, GAP, 1973

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Libro d'artista. Un libro concettuale pubblicato prima della svolta pittorica dell'artista della Transavanguardia. Composto da una serie di fotografie di architetture, si ispira al saggio di Jorge Luis Borges "Pierre Menard: autore di Don Chisciotte". Nel suo racconto, Borges ci propone d’immaginare uno scrittore francese contemporaneo che scriva, partendo da pensieri propri, delle pagine che riproducano testualmente due capitoli del Don Chisciotte: assurdità memorabile, non diversa da quella cui si assiste in ogni traduzione. In una traduzione noi abbiamo una stessa opera in un doppio linguaggio; nella finzione di Borges, abbiamo due opere nell’identità dello stesso linguaggio e, in questa identità che non è tale, il vertiginoso miraggio della duplicità dei possibili. Ora, di fronte a una replica perfetta, l’originale è cancellato e perfino l’origine. Per analogia, Clemente immagina un architetto, Pierre Menard, che progetta architetture identiche ad altre già progettate da grandi architetti: Wright, Mendelsohn, Le Corbousier, Aalto, ecc. [24] pp; 18,5x16 cm Buono (sovracoperta con macchie di umidità al bordo inferiore e piccolo strapp al bordo superiore).…

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Title
Pierre Menard
Author
Francesco CLEMENTE
Publisher
Roma, GAP
Publication year
1973
Binding
Brossura con sovracoperta
Edition
Prima edizione.

Libreria Giorgio Maffei

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The Studio Bibliografico Giorgio Maffei specialises in original texts by twentieth century visual and literary avant-garde artists. These range from the historic publications produced in the early 1900s, to the Futurist, Dadaist, Abstract and Surrealist volumes which are now considered to be classics, to the subsequent revolutionary techniques of the second half of the century. The bibliographic research already carried out by the Studio Bibliografico offers confirmation of the importance of this area and of the fact that the entire history of modern publishing continues to offer immense research potential in all areas, covering original texts, exhibition catalogues, specialist magazines and in particular artists' books, that fertile terrain which encouraged the meeting and cross- fertilisation of many different art forms.…

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