’EST PAS UNE
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
9493148335
ISBN-13
9789493148338
Publisher
Onomatopee
Imprint
Onomatopee
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Aug 17th, 2020
Print length
88 Pages
Weight
172 grams
Dimensions
16.20 x 21.60 x 1.20 cms
Product Classification:
The arts: general issues
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By way of archiving, digital translation and reproduction, Philip Poppek extracts from Magritte’s word paintings twenty-six letters; segmental symbols of a textual system form an alphabet of a, with a familiar apple punctuating a provisional end to the sequence. A poetic correspondence with the letter a speculates on the prehistory of this alphabet, as though searching for some indication as to how we may have come to where we are now, in this ‘post-factual moment’. Maybe at some point we fell into the foxes’ den, only to re-surface in a landscape of ruins. This book poses a number of necessary questions, perhaps beginning with: ‘Which feminine noun trails after the title script ‘est pas une?Pomme? Pipe? Histoire? Communauté?
By way of archiving, digital translation and reproduction, Philip Poppek extracts from Magritte’s word paintings twenty-six letters; segmental symbols of a textual system form an alphabet of a, with a familiar apple punctuating a provisional end to the sequence. A poetic correspondence with the letter a speculates on the prehistory of this alphabet, as though searching for some indication as to how we may have come to where we are now, in this ‘post-factual moment’. Maybe at some point we fell into the foxes’ den, only to re-surface in a landscape of ruins. This book poses a number of necessary questions, perhaps beginning with: ‘Which feminine noun trails after the title script ‘est pas une?Pomme? Pipe? Histoire? Communauté?
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