{"id":5742,"date":"2019-04-18T12:03:38","date_gmt":"2019-04-18T12:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/laps-rietveld.nl\/?p=5742"},"modified":"2019-11-26T11:23:36","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T11:23:36","slug":"a-die-with-twenty-six-faces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laps-rietveld.nl\/?p=5742","title":{"rendered":"A Die with Twenty-Six Faces"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div class=\"text\">\n<p>In <em>A Die with Twenty-Six Faces<\/em>, the author\u2014let\u2019s call him L.\u2014guides the reader through his collection of alphabet books, that is, books with letters for titles. Some of these titles are well known: Andy Warhol\u2019s <em>a<\/em>, Louis Zukofsky\u2019s <em>&#8220;A&#8221;<\/em>,\u00a0Georges Perec\u2019s <em>W<\/em>. Others are obscure, perhaps even imaginary: Zach Sodenstern\u2019s <em>A<\/em>, Arnold Skemer\u2019s <em>C<\/em> and <em>D<\/em>. Tracing connections between these books, L. elaborates on what the critic Guy Davenport has called the &#8220;Kells effect&#8221;: &#8220;the symbolic content of illuminated lettering serving a larger purpose than its decoration of geometry, imps, and signs.&#8221; Mixing essay and fiction, A Die with Twenty-Six Faces is a playful meditation on contemporary literature, typography, and book collecting.<\/p>\n<p>Order at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.romapublications.org\/Roma201-400.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.romapublications.org<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"info\">\n<address>Artist:\u00a0<span class=\"span2\">Louis L\u00fcthi <\/span><br \/>\nIn cooperation with:\u00a0<span class=\"span2\">Lectoraat Art &amp; Public Space, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam <\/span><br \/>\nYear:\u00a0<span class=\"span2\">2019 <\/span><br \/>\nNumber of pages:\u00a0<span class=\"span2\">104 <\/span><br \/>\nSize:\u00a0<span class=\"span2\">13 x 20 cm <\/span><br \/>\nISBN:\u00a0<span class=\"span2\">9789492811394<\/span><\/address>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.metropolism.com\/nl\/features\/37655_louis_luthi_interview_a_die_with_twenty_six_faces\">Read the interview of MetropolisM with Louis Luth\u00ef here.<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"article-share\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In A Die with Twenty-Six Faces, the author\u2014let\u2019s call him L.\u2014guides the reader through his collection of alphabet books, that is, books with letters for titles. Some of these titles are well known: Andy Warhol\u2019s<span class=\"ellipsis\">&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5745,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[513],"tags":[798,799,517,665,516],"language":[],"class_list":["post-5742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-onderzoek","tag-boek","tag-grafisch-ontwerp","tag-kenniskring","tag-louis-luthi","tag-onderzoek-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/laps-rietveld.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/laps-rietveld.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/laps-rietveld.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laps-rietveld.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laps-rietveld.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5742"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/laps-rietveld.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5844,"href":"https:\/\/laps-rietveld.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5742\/revisions\/5844"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laps-rietveld.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/laps-rietveld.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laps-rietveld.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laps-rietveld.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5742"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laps-rietveld.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Flanguage&post=5742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}