
Linguaggio è guerra
- Publisher
- Yard Press
- Year
- 2018
- Specifications
- Soft cover
17 x 24 cm
128 pages
Insert included
1,000 copies
Anastatic reprint of the 1975 artist book
The first anastatic reprint of Fabio Mauri's artist book, first published in 1975. Its pictures were not taken by the author: they are details of war magazines, stamped so as to add a meaning, an undue appropriation. First shot by photographers present at the events, then reproduced in propaganda as partial communication, collected as neutral history, removed again from their archaeological contexts and cut according to a new thesis, they are divided between the signs of language and the man of those signs and reset in sequences that express an interpretative idea in linguistic, ideological terms. The same images, from English and German magazines, were shown in series as an installation.