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Romano Hänni
Signs from the
Stone Age
1988/1989
Size: 21321 cm (20 pages)
Update September 2012
Edition: 81, numbered
For information please contact:
typo@romano-haenni.ch
Signs from the Stone Age
In the cult caves of the stone age beside the paintings of animals
are also found unobtrusive abstract signs. Mysterious rows of dots
and grids. Nobody can say what the meaning was for the creator
more then ten millenias before. Was this the beginning of conceptional design? The original signs are found in the cave of Lascaux,
France.
In this handprinted book some signs are hand composed with
typographic materials: lines and dots. After the pages with the signs
follows a page with some excerpts from different special literature
about the thinking of the poeple in the stone age and their philosophy. The photographs (printed in offset) on the following double
page show the original signs in the cave. On the back cover a text
from the book Taoteking by the Chinese philosopher Laotse.