{"id":23669,"date":"2019-01-07T21:56:47","date_gmt":"2019-01-07T12:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sulki-min.com\/wp\/?p=23669"},"modified":"2026-05-02T11:30:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T02:30:19","slug":"impressions-dafrique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sulki-min.com\/wp\/impressions-dafrique\/","title":{"rendered":"Impressions d\u2019Afrique"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The dust jacket displays a subtle contrast between the symmetric, serifed typography (set in Optique by Noh Eunyou) and the dotted double R\u2019s, which are positioned and foil-stamped gently disregarding the arrangement of the printed elements. Taking off the dust jacket reveals a hidden meaning of the initials: each R consists of the same twenty-six alphabet letters, whose order is reversed between the two initials \u2013 a simple nod to the author\u2019s technique: &#8220;I chose two similar words. For example billard (billiard) and pillard (looter). Then I added to it words similar but taken in two different directions, and I obtained two almost identical sentences thus\u2026.\u201d (R. Roussel, <em>How I Wrote Certain of My Books<\/em>, 1935)<\/p>\n<p>The theme of contrast continues inside. The typography is conservative, even slightly archaic, for the historic avant-garde work: in the rather formal dress, the radical nature of the text would manifest itself more clearly, and perhaps more interestingly, thanks to the incongruity. The typeface (old-style myeongjo in combination with Monotype Fournier), the spacing (slightly loose), and the arrangement (centered and justified) all help give the wildly experimental text a calm and assured appearance. A sense of modernity, however, is evoked by the way the notes are treated: rotated and placed in the wide side margins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-23662\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sulki-min.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/africa-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"111\" height=\"153\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1166,2876,4150,4909,4570,4442,1546,1544,4438,611,5075,4818,4677,1543,4486,4420,4418],"tags":[2934],"class_list":["post-23669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1166","category-group-theory-ddp-seoul-2021-22","category-sulki-min-clarifying-obscuring-transtage-hangzhou-2024","category-en-post","category-fournier","category-glossy-coated-paper","category-gyeongil-binding","category-hanyeong-printing-goyang","category-magic-color","category-munhakdongne","category-offset-lithograph-case-bound-and-jacketed","category-optique-display","category-publication","category-raymond-roussel","category-sm-sinmyeongjo","category-smooth-uncoated-paper","category-t-eos","tag-roussel"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sulki-min.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sulki-min.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sulki-min.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sulki-min.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sulki-min.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23669"}],"version-history":[{"count":31,"href":"https:\/\/www.sulki-min.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60071,"href":"https:\/\/www.sulki-min.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23669\/revisions\/60071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sulki-min.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sulki-min.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sulki-min.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}