Echelle optométrique
1966
Echelle optométrique
1966
Hains created his "optometric" scales after tearing up posters in the streets of Paris with his accomplice Jacques Villeglé.
Raymond Hains continued his experiments on the distortion of reality with fluted lenses on Camille Bryen's phonetic poem Hépérile, from which he created a fragmented poem, "the first fortunately illegible book", "a poem to un-read". Letters became cuneiform-like signs, ultra-letters forming ultra-words. With great humour, they revealed a different reality in which Hains renewed the conditions of legibility and visibility of the world.
| Domain | Photo |
|---|---|
| Techniques | Epreuve gélatino-argentique |
| Dimensions | 120 x 120 cm |
| Acquisition | Don de l'artiste, 1979 |
| Inventory no. | AM 1978-3 |
Detailed description
| Artist |
Raymond Hains
(1926, France - 2005, France) |
|---|---|
| Main title | Echelle optométrique |
| Creation date | 1966 |
| Domain | Photo |
| Techniques | Epreuve gélatino-argentique |
| Dimensions | 120 x 120 cm |
| Inscriptions | S.D.H.DR.R. : Raymond Hains/ 1966 |
| Acquisition | Don de l'artiste, 1979 |
| Collection area | Cabinet de la photographie |
| Inventory no. | AM 1978-3 |
Bibliography
Voir la notice sur le portail de la Bibliothèque Kandinsky
CORNEA (Ileana). - Raymond Hains. - Neuchâtel : Editions Ides et Calendes, 2004 (reprod. p. 25) . N° isbn 2-8258-0211-5
Voir la notice sur le portail de la Bibliothèque Kandinsky