- Hardcover
- Publisher: Random House Value Publishing (Feb 16 1985)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0517475146
- ISBN-13: 978-0517475140
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,465,539 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Perhaps the most inventive graphic work of the 20th Century,
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This review is from: Codex Seraphinianus (Hardcover)
An encyclopedia of an imaginary world akin to ours but both more beautiful and less intelligible that forces the reader/viewer to re-think the methods by which we try to make sense of things. An encyclopedia is a synoptic version of the order by which we attempt to see the world. Such books reflect a "scientific" method which has ordered sight especially since the enlightenment but back to the taxonomies of Aristotle. This volume alludes to our desire to place sensation into category but offers, tacitly, other criteria of analogy and relation that undo the habits of too tutored thought. PS A 1st edition is now up to 500-700$.
5.0 out of 5 stars
book for the lonely island, if only one was allowed,
By Joseph Gappmayer (jgappmayer@salzburg.co.at) (Salzburg, Austria) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Codex Seraphinianus (Hardcover)
Whenever you open this book, you will be absorbed by the abundance of creativity and imagination and due to to the cryptic way of comunication you keep on wondering if you will be the first to enter this hermetic world of L.S. Breathtaking.
5.0 out of 5 stars
A masterpiece of nonsense,
By A Customer
This review is from: Codex Seraphinianus (Hardcover)
The book is a piece of conceptual art. You open it and are confronted with what looks to be an profusely illustrated encyclopedia of things you have never before seen. The illustrations are inspired and colorful works done in colored pencil. The text is in a made-up language. You are left to decide what this all means, so it is also a puzzle book. It's a shame it's out of print. It's worth seeking out a copy.
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