EAN: 9780262536226

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A book without words recounting a day in the life of an office worker told completely in the symbols icons and logos of modern life. Twenty years ago I made Book from the Sky a book of illegible Chinese characters that no one could read. Now I have created Book from the Ground a book that anyone can read. —Xu Bing Following his classic work Book from the Sky the Chinese artist Xu Bing presents a new graphic novel—one composed entirely of symbols and icons that are universally understood. Xu Bing spent seven years gathering materials experimenting revising and arranging thousands of pictograms to construct the narrative of Book from the Ground. The result is a readable story without words an account of twenty-four hours in the life of "Mr. Black ” a typical urban white-collar worker. Our protagonist's day begins with wake-up calls from a nearby bird and his bedside alarm clock it continues through tooth-brushing coffee-making TV-watching and cat-feeding. He commutes to his job on the subway works in his office ponders various fast-food options for lunch waits in line for the bathroom daydreams sends flowers socializes after work goes home kills a mosquito goes to bed sleeps and gets up the next morning to do it all over again. His day is recounted with meticulous and intimate detail and reads like a postmodern post-textual riff on James Joyce's account of Bloom's peregrinations in Ulysses. But Xu Bing's narrative using an exclusively visual language could be published anywhere without translation or explication anyone with experience in contemporary life—anyone who has internalized the icons and logos of modernity from smiley faces to transit maps to menus—can understand it.

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