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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, 21×16cm, pbk, printed offset. Imshoot, Uitgevers for Affinites Selectives, Ghent, Belgium.
Grahame, Noreen (ed.), 1991, Artists’ Books – The Catalogue, grahame galleries + editions.
Drucker, Johanna, 1995, The Century of Artists’ Books, Granary Books, NY.