“UNMAKEABLE” by Jonathan Safran Foer

“Jonathan Safran Foer deftly deploys sculptural means to craft a truly compelling story. In our world of screens, he welds narrative, materiality, and our reading experience into a book that remembers that it actually has a body.”

Olafur Eliasson.

Book printers said Jonathan Safran Foer’s “Unmakeable” Book “could not be made.” Visual Editions proved them wrong. The book is an interactive paper sculpture: Foer and his collaborators took the pages of another book, Bruno Schulz’s The Street of Crocodiles, and literally carved a brand new story out of them using a die-cut technique.

Throughout the twentieth century technique, through branded, cuts or restructuring, to Tristan Tzara to "The Beat Generation." Here we leave the well-known poem by Tristan Tzara.
 

“Take a newspaper.
- Take a pair of scissors.
- Choose an article as long as you are planning to make your poem.
- Cut out the article.
- Then cut out each of the words that make up this article and put them in a bag.
- Shake it gently.
- Then take out the scraps one after the other in the order in which they left the bag.
- Copy conscientiously.
- The poem will be like you.
- And here you are a writer, infinitely original and endowed with a sensibility that is charming though beyond the understanding of the vulgar.”

“To Make A Dadist Poem” Tristán Tzara.