Front Cover

Notes

Inséré dans une pochette plastique contenant un confetti orange et un feuillet jaune sorte de mode d’emploi.
Le lecteur peut personnaliser son exemplaire en insérant où il le souhaite le confetti contenu dans la pochette.

Publisher Note

This “unreadable book” by Bruno Munari is part of a group of books which have this name due to their lack of words. Instead, they have a visual story that can be understood by following the thread of visual discourse. The “unreadable books” were created in 1949 and the were exhibited for the first time at the Salto bookshop in Milan in the same year. Some copies were handmade by the author. In 1953, 2000 copies of a white and red unreadable book with cut pages was published by Steendrukkerij de Jong & Co. in the Netherlands, edited by Pieter Brattinga in the Quardat Blatter series. Many unreadable books, together with other works, were shown at the Museum of Modern Art in New York at the Two Graphic Designers exhibition in 1955.

Artists’ Book

Libro illeggibile. Codice ovvio

by Bruno Munari

Publisher
Release Place Mantova, Italy
Edition 1st edition
Release Date 2017
Credits
Artist: Bruno Munari
Identifiers
ISBN-13: 978-88-7570-672-2
Work  
Language Italian, English
Dimensions 20.4 × 12.2 cm
Weight 500 gram
Pages 10