Contributions

  • Coracle Press - Contributor
  • Cutts, Simon, 1944- - Contributor

Publication

1990 - Coracle, London, England

Language

English

Word Count

6,000 words, Guess

Page Count

24 pages

Identifiers

Classifications

  • LCCZ232.C78 A1 1990b

Description

In Sans Signaux (1990), another example of the repurposing of public language, Van Horn and Cutts collect “found” signs to create a kind of travel diary, recording quirky and unusual messages from shop windows in England, France, and Belgium. These simple announcements provide a clear sense of the character of the sign’s (often anonymous) maker and its setting. Removed from their usual contexts—and the book’s title indicates, perhaps, that the artists took each from its original location—these signs also highlight the inevitable idiosyncrasies found in words, phrases, and meanings that are specific to a particular place.--http://visualsyntax.net/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/an-essay-on-erica-van-horns-work-by-nancy-kuhl.pdf.

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