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Leandro Katz

Leandro Katz
Art Library Rare Books Collection N7433.4.K394 N2 1971 box 7.1

Visual homage to that letter of the Spanish alphabet. "The material of this work of art has been enlarged photographically ninety-two times from the impression of the IBM Executive Typewriter Ñ. Ñ is a unique character of the Spanish alphabet. The sound Ñ did not exist in classic Latin, Greek, Hebrew nor Arabic. It was first writen nn. It appears as the initial of a syllable. Most of the words whose initial is Ñ today are words adopted into Spanish from the indigenous American speech, (Quichua, Aymará, Mapuche, Calepino, Lule, Tonocoté, Allentiac, Toba, Mataco, Tehuelche and Ona languages)." -- publisher's statement.

Leandro Katz
Art Library Rare Books Collection N7433.4.K394 S45 1975 box 7.1

On each page of this book one of eighteen identical photographs of a single billboard in Curacao advertising “Hipnotismo” is laid out next to a Mayan numeral and its Arabic counterpart. Beneath these visual pairings runs a text composed when the artist was back in New York under the influence of Severo Sarduy, Roland Barthes, Guy Debord, Charles Ludlam and especially Raoul Vaneigem. --from Printed Matter

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