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L'Ultima Avanguardia - Arte Programmata e Cinetica, 1953-1963 - Lea Vergine. (1983)

Strong on photos and illustrations, this book surveys a key period of 'programmed and kinetic art'. On the right are works by Vera Molnar

To note, the language is in Italian. Here's another photo. This time the work of Deiter Hacker - a section of which provided the design for the cover of the book.

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Yes, with some css applied to some generative ascii/unicode, I think you can do some very interesting things. The range of exotic glyphs is endless, then applied with line-height and letter-spacing and I suspect all sorts of wonderful patterns could be achieved. A rabbit hole in itself.

This looks like a real gem 💎 Italian language (and pretty sure there's no translated version available) only adds up to the "feels rare" ambiance. Looking at the VM works on the right, I'd directly love to get my hands dirty on some minimalistic ascii versions 😅.

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