- Hardcover: 250 pages
- Publisher: Abbeville Press; 1st American ed edition (Jan 1983)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0896594289
- ISBN-13: 978-0896594289
- Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 3,274,683 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
The illustrations are brilliant, weird and wonderful. The text - a code - is, as far as I can see, nonsense.
The same "words" are repeated much too often for it to make any sense, but the calligraphy is great! Even the paper
is special and at 96 dollars I consider it an absolute bargain. A book to have.
The same "words" are repeated much too often for it to make any sense, but the calligraphy is great! Even the paper
is special and at 96 dollars I consider it an absolute bargain. A book to have.
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41 of 41 people found the following review helpful
The encyclopeadia of an imaginary world
2 May 1997
Format:Hardcover
We owe this 20-year old piece of high fantasy to a Roman architect, Luigi Serafini. This is a large book of splendid, eerie illustrations of an impossible world in a parallel universe, with copious comments in an incomprehensible language in an imaginary script. A world at once familiar, inhabited as it is by humans, and hauntingly different, with its very own laws of physics, its strange fauna, its stranger flora, its unimaginable society, technology, even mathematics. The Codex Seraphinianus is to that world what Diderot's Encyclopaedia is to ours, only lavishly and artistically illustrated. A feast for the eyes, a tease for the brain, to which you will find yourselves drawn again and again, and again, in ever renewed fascination. It is a particular joy in the Italian edition (published by Franco Maria Ricci of Milan) if you can afford the outrageous price -- some US$250: hand-made paper, a hard-cover bound in black silk in a box clad in black silk, such luxuries do not come cheaply
16 of 20 people found the following review helpful
Perhaps the most inventive graphic work of the 20th Century
4 May 2004
Format:Hardcover
An encyclopedia of an imaginary world akin to ours but both more beautiful and less intelligible that forces the reader/viewer to re-think the methods by which we try to make sense of things. An encyclopedia is a synoptic version of the order by which we attempt to see the world. Such books reflect a "scientific" method which has ordered sight especially since the enlightenment but back to the taxonomies of Aristotle. This volume alludes to our desire to place sensation into category but offers, tacitly, other criteria of analogy and relation that undo the habits of too tutored thought. PS A 1st edition is now up to 500-700$.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
future commentary
11 April 2007
Format:Unknown Binding
This man is a visionary, I think he is illustrating our future world after we get done destroying it at the cellular (and smaller) level with nanoparticles, genetic engineering etc... In his book we can see his version of potential unprecedented changes to our world (with artistic license of course)
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