Giovanni Anselmo 1934 Italy
Lire (1990)
A work devoted to the visual properties of the printed word. Taking the simple word, lire (read), Anselmo varies the size and scale on the page until a progression is established. As you flip through the book the word becomes smaller and then gradually larger and larger until the book concludes with a completely black page where the word is no longer readable. 80pp, 21x16cm, pbk, printed offset. Imshoot, Uitgevers for Affinites Selectives, Ghent, Belgium.
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