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Utopia Myopia : 36 Plays on a Page, Typography & Pornography, Lines & Lies & Clues to Use, Nonsense Invents Events, A Kind of Novel Novel / Barbara Stauffacher Solomon
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FA.B128.2588
36 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
2013
Softcover.
"UTOPIA MYOPIA is a novel novel, a diary, a high-flying history, an academic adult comic book w/visions of utopia, dystopia & myopia. Illusions, confusions & conclusions play out in 36 plays, each contained on one page. The setting for each play is a piece of paper 81/2”x11”. Characters are listed. Scenes & characters are drawn on the top half of the page; five columns of lines of type, newspaper, style, are set below. The dialogue is minimal, a shorthand determined by the number of letterforms per line, a text-message for today's limited attentions spans. Apple trees & bobby pins debate thing, a CNN app lets Anderson Cooper interview Wittgenstein on Cloud 9, a proud cloud explains letterforms, god DOG & work WHY discourse, of course & Giotto ANGELS, finally free to possess legs and high-heels in their City of Angeles palm trees, disagree re. architectural theory but agree w/the glitzy glass lady-shaped high-rise spanning Sunset Boulevard that heaven is achieved in Utopia Made in Hollywood"--The artist.
"UTOPIA MYOPIA is a novel novel, a diary, a high-flying history, an academic adult comic book w/visions of utopia, dystopia & myopia. Illusions, confusions & conclusions play out in 36 plays, each contained on one page. The setting for each play is a piece of paper 81/2”x11”. Characters are listed. Scenes & characters are drawn on the top half of the page; five columns of lines of type, newspaper, style, are set below. The dialogue is minimal, a shorthand determined by the number of letterforms per line, a text-message for today's limited attentions spans. Apple trees & bobby pins debate thing, a CNN app lets Anderson Cooper interview Wittgenstein on Cloud 9, a proud cloud explains letterforms, god DOG & work WHY discourse, of course & Giotto ANGELS, finally free to possess legs and high-heels in their City of Angeles palm trees, disagree re. architectural theory but agree w/the glitzy glass lady-shaped high-rise spanning Sunset Boulevard that heaven is achieved in Utopia Made in Hollywood"--The artist.