Codex Seraphinianus Author: Visit Amazon's Luigi Serafini Page | Language: English | ISBN:
0847842134 | Format: PDF
Codex Seraphinianus Description
Review
“…the book really does live up to its reputation: The drawings are in turn hilarious, disturbing, bizarre and, sometimes, just flat-out incomprehensible, but all of them are annotated in Serafini’s script.” ~
Dangerous Minds
“It’s not the sort of thing that easily lends itself to classification, but probably the most accurate way to describe it would be as an encyclopedia of an invented alien civilization…the Codex is still a disorienting and provocative vision of inscrutable otherness.” ~
Slate.com
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Codex Seraphinianus is an art book in the most direct sense—there are big, beautiful drawings accompanied by indecipherable letterforms--and it is impossible to “read” in a literal way. The text has remained a mystery all these years, and perhaps that’s part of its draw as an art object.” ~
FineBooks Magazine
“Is the best art book of the year one that is not only impossible for me to review, but one that is probably equally impossible for you to understand? It’s a handsome, hilarious and enduring puzzle that not only features wonderful art in it, but in its entirety captures another kind of human creativity—the encyclopedia, the result of compiling and collecting, and an unlikely medium for artists.”
~North Adams TranscriptAbout the Author
Luigi Serafini is an architect, ceramist, glazier, painter, sculptor, designer, opera director, set designer, and critic who works in Italy and abroad. In 2007, the Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea in Milan dedicated a successful
mostra ontological (ontological exhibition) to him. He has illustrated works by Franz Kafka and Michael Ende.
- Hardcover: 396 pages
- Publisher: Rizzoli; Har/Bklt N edition (October 29, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0847842134
- ISBN-13: 978-0847842131
- Product Dimensions: 13.7 x 9.4 x 1.8 inches
- Shipping Weight: 5.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
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