Composition:

Composition is an algorithmic mash-up of two historical texts. One is Mechanick Exercises: Or, the Doctrine of Handy-Works. Applied to the Art of Printing. The Second Volumne (1683) by Joseph Moxon and Theodore Low De Vinne, which contains an extensive step-by-step description of a typesetting proce...

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Hauptverfasser: Moxon, Joseph 1627-1691 (VerfasserIn), Stein, Gertrude 1874-1946 (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] GPDFeditions [2014]
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Zusammenfassung:Composition is an algorithmic mash-up of two historical texts. One is Mechanick Exercises: Or, the Doctrine of Handy-Works. Applied to the Art of Printing. The Second Volumne (1683) by Joseph Moxon and Theodore Low De Vinne, which contains an extensive step-by-step description of a typesetting process. This description is dissected by a Python script and filled with the letters of Gertrude Stein’s Composition As Explanation (1926) whenever a letter to be typeset is mentioned as an example. The resulting text is advertised by Angela Genusa and Benjamin Laird as "Moxon and De Vinne typeset Stein letter by letter, word by word, line by line..." ...
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