Coup de dés (Collection)

Coup de dés (Collection): Books and Ideas after Mallarmé brings together a vast number ofeditions of Mallarmé's chef d'oeuvre as well as many of its historical and contemporary editionsand appropriations by other authors. Mallarmé's arrangement of the poem on opposite pagesturned each side into a compositional entity. Constellations of words on a spread and the interplaybetween the text fragments and the surrounding white-similar to the way a constellation of starsinteracts with the sky-was a metaphor explicitly used and introduced into literature by Mallarmé.His notion of "constellation", for example, is connected to Ulises Carrión's vision of a "new" book."In the old art, to read the last page takes as much time as to read the first one./In the new art thereading rhythm changes, quickens, speeds up," as he wrote in 1975. The richly illustrated bookcontextualizes the perception and appropriations of Mallarmé's masterpiece through criticalessays written by the editor and leading scholars such as Annette Gilbert, Craig Dworkin, LucBoltanski/Arnaud Esquerre, and Ryoko Sekiguchi.Michalis Pichler is a Berlin-based artist, primarily operating independently of the commercialgallery system, and one of the founders and organizers of Miss Read and Conceptual Poetics Day.Pichler's works often make use of found and pre-used material. He treats pages as canvases andcanvases as pages for works of art.