Orbis Tertius
Designer, concept: Peter Malutzki
Images/graphics: Peter Malutzki
Letterpress printer: Peter Malutzki
Categories: Bookwork / Image-graphic Books, Letterpress Books, Poetry/Proses/Text Works, Small Press Books
Reference no.:L/Ket.I-Mal.P/97-06/06.04 Place/Shelf:3AL
Book title: | Orbis Tertius |
Year made: | 2006 |
Place made: | Germany |
Original: | Yes |
Edition: (No. in Edition) |
40 (30) |
Dimensions: | 125 x 200 |
Binder: | bound by Ricarda Rau |
Physical description: | paper case binding, hard cover |
Medium: | text, graphics, photographs |
Further information: | |
The volume contains a passage of Jorge Luis Borges' tale 'Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius' (in German translation). With found aerial photographs of London and New York and images of people, graphics, objects which suggest themselves as portraits of those nouns, mentioned in the text, those involved in the attempt to create the new world.
"If Orbis Tertius is a secret society of the early 17th century and its 'post review of an illusionary world', then this is about a time which had a latent tendency to reality distorting depictions." (p. 97) (from the catalogue) |
Designer, concept: | Peter Malutzki () |
Images/graphics: | Peter Malutzki () |
Letterpress printer: | Peter Malutzki () |
All images are subject to copyright.