Truly Tribal
£29.96
’EST PAS UNE
£12.00
By way of archiving, digital translation and reproduction, Philip Poppek extracts from Magritte’s word paintings twenty-six letters; segmental symbols of a textual system form an alphabet of a, with a familiar apple punctuating a provisional end to the sequence. A poetic correspondence with the letter a speculates on the prehistory of this alphabet, as though searching for some indication as to how we may have come to where we are now, in this ‘post-factual moment’.
Maybe at some point we fell into the foxes’ den, only to re-surface in a landscape of ruins. This book poses a number of necessary questions, perhaps beginning with: ‘Which feminine noun trails after the title script ‘est pas une?
Pomme? Pipe? Histoire? Communauté?
- ISBN-13
- 9789493148338
- Publisher
- Onomatopee
- Imprint
- Onomatopee
- Publication date
- 17 August 2020
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 88
- Dimensions
- 215 x 160 mm
- Language
- English
