{"product_id":"drucksache-mensch-figur-aus-schrift","title":"Drucksache Mensch – Figure Composed of Script","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHand-coloured lithograph with red stamp print · 40 × 30 cm · signed, numbered and dated\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA human silhouette, set entirely in letterforms, strides across the “Book of Reality” – the human being as printed matter, a sign that can be read and misread. On grey-beige paper, numbered, signed and dated at lower right. The key work of the Buch \u0026amp; Mensch group of works.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBackground\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eFigures made of letters stand in a long tradition of joining script and image. In his Calligrammes of 1918, Guillaume Apollinaire let lines of poetry come together into recognisable shapes, and the concrete poetry of the 1950s, shaped in part by Eugen Gomringer’s constellations of 1953, made the printed word itself an artistic material. The German term Schriftbild describes this double nature: a text that is read and, at the same time, seen as form.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHand-signed, limited-edition sheet\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSigned certificate of authenticity SCHERO × LytraG\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eInsured worldwide art shipping\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"SCHERO × LytraG","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58643285934428,"sku":null,"price":300.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0948\/6109\/9356\/files\/schero-drucksache-mensch.jpg?v=1786631017","url":"https:\/\/lytrag-store.de\/en\/products\/drucksache-mensch-figur-aus-schrift","provider":"SCHERO × LytraG","version":"1.0","type":"link"}