Abstract

Abstract Italian artist Luigi Serafini and American bookbinder Timothy Ely share the same aesthetics of communication in book art. Both authors conceive their works as a book format, producing a clash between the unreadable content of the books – otherworldly images combined with invented indecipherable codes – and their intelligible material and visual characteristics, that imitate existing artefacts. This study draws a comparison between these two artists’ book production. It is my conviction that the books by Ely and Serafini convey the idea of a universal readability and can be interpreted as tools for accepting otherness.

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