Lüthi~Louis – ‘A Die with Twenty Six Faces’

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Author: Louis Lüthi 
Publisher: Roma Publisher, Amsterdam
Year: 2019 
ISBN: 9789492811394

In cooperation with: Lectoraat Art & Public Space, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam
Year: 2019
Number of pages: 104
Size: 13 x 20 cm

A Die with Twenty-Six Faces / Louis Lüthi
Roma Publication 344
In A Die with Twenty-Six Faces, the author—let’s call him L.—guides the reader through his collection of alphabet books, that is, books with letters for titles. Some of these titles are well known: Andy Warhol’s a, Louis Zukofsky’s "A", Georges Perec’s W. Others are obscure, perhaps even imaginary: Zach Sodenstern’s A, Arnold Skemer’s C and D. Tracing connections between these books, L. elaborates on what the critic Guy Davenport has called the "Kells effect": "the symbolic content of illuminated lettering serving a larger purpose than its decoration of geometry, imps, and signs." Mixing essay and fiction, A Die with Twenty-Six Faces is a playful meditation on contemporary literature, typography, and book collecting.

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