Permutoria
Paperback, 120 pages
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Color, vivid and subtle, is a major protagonist in this amazing dialogue of text, text fragments, line, and image; a dialogue not so much between the 2 collaborators (the work is strikingly unified) as between the several modes of expression these pieces exhibit. Truly a unique and wonderful creation!
Excerpts from introduction: "This book represents the first consolidated depiction of the Ernst-Murphy collaborative in extended form. Compiling the volume has facilitated the elucidating and sharing what the artists have opted to consider part of an emerging oeuvre." "Visio-textual art draws life from letters, syllables, and words, from line, from curve, to shape, enacting a philosophical geometry in which concept and physical reality are conjoined." "Collaboration is about discovery and surprise. In the experience of working together, the process-based discoveries in visio-textual art are amplified by virtue of the added thought power..."
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"Review by Bob Grumman"
The following review is part of Bob Grumman's column in "Small Press Review" (used with Bob's permission, of course!):
"Permutoria, a collection of collaborations by K. S. Ernst and Sheila E. Murphy, is out of the same territory as Bennett's Words & Junk. I blurbed it with "Who could give such an enormous range of smashingly interactive fusions of poetry and visual art as this book contains the
blurb it deserves? I sure can't." Many of the pieces feature a single (colorful) letter. Each is a delightful design--but also unexpectedly potent semantically, for those susceptible to minimalism. One depicting a semi-transparent P, for instance, situates the P... More >
The following review is part of Bob Grumman's column in "Small Press Review" (used with Bob's permission, of course!):
"Permutoria, a collection of collaborations by K. S. Ernst and Sheila E. Murphy, is out of the same territory as Bennett's Words & Junk. I blurbed it with "Who could give such an enormous range of smashingly interactive fusions of poetry and visual art as this book contains the
blurb it deserves? I sure can't." Many of the pieces feature a single (colorful) letter. Each is a delightful design--but also unexpectedly potent semantically, for those susceptible to minimalism. One depicting a semi-transparent P, for instance, situates the P... More >
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