1987: A Book Comes from the Sky

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Xu Bing’s A Book from the Sky (1987) is a 604-page volume in the style of the Song and Ming dynasties—but it contains no actual Chinese characters; instead, the symbols—4,000 of them—are “meaningless glyphs designed to resemble traditional Chinese characters.” This is the title page. (source)

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