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Commentary on Approximations to the Object: Readings in Designed Literature
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ISBN13: 9789083532509
Publisher: Set Margins' Publications
Published: Nov 25 2025
Pages: 114
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.20
Language: English
For designers, typographers and curious minds--Bernstein's take on an obscure 19th-century treatise reestablishes the semiotic connections between design and literature
Pedro Bernstein's commentary on the oeuvre of Approximations to the Object, a 19th-century treatise attributed to Edmund Stone, leads to a fundamental question: how does the flux between design and literature produce a distinct engagement with meaning?
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