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Genre/Form: | Illustrated works Illustrations |
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Named Person: | Stéphane Mallarmé |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Eric Zboya; Philip Davenport; Christian Bök; Basil Cleveland; Apple Pie Editions, publisher. |
ISBN: | 9781909388239 1909388238 |
OCLC Number: | 1122580604 |
Language Note: | Original text translated into English by Basil Cleveland. |
Notes: | Printed in a limited edition of 120 copies. |
Description: | unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 28 cm |
Other Titles: | Roll of the dice never will abolish chance Translations : |
Responsibility: | Eric Zboya ; with an afterword by Christian B̈̈̈̈ök ; edited by Philip Davenport. |
Abstract:
"Eric Zboya has converted Un coup de dés into a series of abstract pictures, all of which accentuate the themes of transcendental dimensionality, implicit in the work of Mallarmé. Zboya performs a series of computerized translations upon each page of the text, using an algorithm to extrude every letter into a 3D-model, whereupon he repeats this process upon the output, doing so recursively over and over again, until the text resembles a feathery dendrite of both needles and spicules, all of which emanate outward, like a starburst into the void of the page. The software transmutes the flatness of each text into a digital thistle of ink. The letters burst into a dark aura, obscuring their original contours"--Afterword
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