Description of San Marco by Michel Butor: Vademecum and Artist's Book
Abstract
Description de San Marco can be characterized as an ‘artist’s book’ in which Michel Butor is committed to textualize a thousand-year-old building: St Mark’s Basilica in Venice. Meanwhile Butor updates this complex architectural ensemble and invites the reader to take part in the reading of it as well as of the text. This study regards the second section of Description de San Marco, devoted to the vestibule, where Butor initiates a scriptural dialogue with the series of sub-titled mosaics in the narthex, all devoted to pilot scenes of the Old Testament.
Keywords:
artist’s book, Michel Butor, St Mark’s Basilica, relationship text and image, the reader’s performanceReferences
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