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E.A.Poe’s The Raven reduced by JHK

Author
Jiří Hynek Kocman
Year
1982
Year to
1990
Technique and size

books-objects

About work

E.A.Poe´s famous poem from 1845 has 18 stanzas, each of which ends with the refrain NOTHINGMORE, EVERMORE, respectively NEVER MORE. Paraphrase is to transform the poems in the book-building, where 18 gray-black sheets of handmade paper are equivalent to 18 stanfas. In several dozen variants leather hanged ties gradually turned into flexible packaging ties with frayed edges are accidentally zoomorphic reminiscent of wings.

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Photo author: Archiv autora
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