Creator
Allen Crawford and Walt Whitman
Title
Whitman Illuminated: Song of Myself. Illustrated by Allen Crawford
Coverage
Portland, OR, & Brooklyn, NY
Publisher
Tin House Books
Date
2014
Description
Crawford—an artist, illustrator, designer, and writer—includes a reference to Champollion on this page of his illuminated manuscript based on Walt Whitman’s iconic work Leaves of Grass (1855). Crawford noted about his book: “Whitman Illuminated is going to vex readers who expect the same reading experience as a typeset page because all 256 pages … are drawn by hand: every comma, every period. This was my way of keeping Whitman’s lines raw, supple, and wild. The words flow around hundreds of images…” From cahoodaloodaling Issue No.19, 2016.
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