Abelardo MorellUSA, 1948A Tale of Two Cities
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Abelardo Morell’s series on books depicts them simultaneously as conveyors of information and as palpable, even multisensory, objects. In 1995 he accepted a position as artist-in-residence at the Boston Athenaeum, an independent library and museum that was founded in 1807. “One of the big pleasures of this project has come from spending a good amount of time looking at, holding, smelling, and reading a terrific number of skinny, fat, tall, pompous, modest, funny, sad, proud, injured, and radiant books,” he later wrote. Recognizing that the physical features of books affect our perception of their contents, Morell transformed these humble, familiar things in ways that continue to occupy him to this day.
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In this photograph of the opening page of Charles Dickens’s novel A Tale of Two Cities, Morell shows how the book’s paper, translucent in the light, allows words from either side to blend and confuse meaning. Phrases running forward and backward —“Light” and “dirty procession,” “epoch of belief” and “because he had not kneeled”—contradict each other. This visual opposition seems to literalize Dickens’s famous first sentence, which begins: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness.”
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