Codex Seraphinianus
JA
January 22
The Codex Seraphinianus is a rather strange yet beautifully surreal book by Italian artist Luigi Serafini. According to Wikipedia, it was created during the late 1970s and is supposed to be ‘a visual encyclopaedia of an unknown world’ written in a thus-far indecipherable language.
The book appears to be divided into sections on nature, physics, history, architecture, mechanics, biology and so on. The images – buildings based on claws and vertebrae, fruit that bleeds or grow into ladders, trees that swim, bandaged eggs or three-headed birds, are both gentle, fascinating and bizarre.
A few pages are below and the entire book has been uploaded for perusal online. Have a look here. Via Bookninja
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