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To the letter.
By Paul shaw from eye magazine 75 spring 2010
'To the letter' explores the work of two calligraphers, Carl Kurtz and Susan Skarsgard. Carl and Susan both use text as tool to create beautiful images, often putting the form of the letters before the legibility of the text. The article talks briefly about the history of the calligraphers, and also compares thier achievements to Asian art, where the beauty of calligraphy is much more common in the culture. The letters are 'drawn, rather than written'. The writer then goes on to discuss how it is clear that in Kurtz's vision, the image is dominant, and 'the legibility is often a casualty as he distorts and manipulates the letters.' He also includes an explanation of Skarsgard's alphabets, discussing her play with fundamental shapes of the alphabet and stripping them down to explore shape, rhythm, negative space, pattern, colour, texture and perception. This process often ends with illegibility, but Skarsgard suggests that in modern society expression is a much more vital ingredient in the calligraphy world than being able to read it.
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