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TY - BOOK
T1 - Argo-0
T2 - A doctored text
AU - Baker, Brian
N1 - https://www.steelincisors.com/product/argo-0-by-brian-baker/15?cp=true&sa=true&sbp=false&q=false
PY - 2022/11/20
Y1 - 2022/11/20
N2 - Arg-0 is a treatment of HG Wells’ short story ‘The Chronic Argonauts’, which he wrote while a miserable schoolmaster in Holt, North Wales, and was published in 1888 in the Royal College of Science student magazine The Science Schools Journal. The story is a forerunner to The Time Machine, and elements of the final section of the story appear in the novel almost verbatim. ‘The Chronic Argonauts’ is a much more mysterious, even occultic story, set in a small village in North Wales (though Wells makes up all the names except for the village of Llanrwst), and the inventor figure, Dr Nebogipfel, much more like the fin-de-siècle anti-heroes of the Gothic. The pages here are not sequential but form an interrelated set. They are paper-based collages/ redactions and the visibility of the ‘pages’ is an important aesthetic principle. The materials are paper, charcoal, pencil, ink and gouache.
AB - Arg-0 is a treatment of HG Wells’ short story ‘The Chronic Argonauts’, which he wrote while a miserable schoolmaster in Holt, North Wales, and was published in 1888 in the Royal College of Science student magazine The Science Schools Journal. The story is a forerunner to The Time Machine, and elements of the final section of the story appear in the novel almost verbatim. ‘The Chronic Argonauts’ is a much more mysterious, even occultic story, set in a small village in North Wales (though Wells makes up all the names except for the village of Llanrwst), and the inventor figure, Dr Nebogipfel, much more like the fin-de-siècle anti-heroes of the Gothic. The pages here are not sequential but form an interrelated set. They are paper-based collages/ redactions and the visibility of the ‘pages’ is an important aesthetic principle. The materials are paper, charcoal, pencil, ink and gouache.
KW - visual poetry
KW - erasure poetry
KW - poetry
KW - artist book
M3 - Book
BT - Argo-0
PB - Steel Incisors
ER -