{"product_id":"font-book","title":"Font Book","description":"\u003cp\u003eA short time ago British artist Fiona Banner designed her own font, utilizing an amalgamation of typefaces she had employed in a variety of text-based artworks, including full stop sculptures, typeset wall works, and artist books, (including, for example \u003cem\u003eThe Nam\u003c\/em\u003e, an epic account of Vietnam war movies written from memory). Banner named her new font: \u003cem\u003eFont\u003c\/em\u003e, a cheeky, self-referential title of little surprise to those familiar with Banner’s poetic, disruptive interrogation of cultural, institutional and technological frameworks.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eConcurrent with her creation, Banner became fascinated with the idiosyncratic double meaning of the word itself. In addition to a typeface, a \u003cem\u003efont\u003c\/em\u003e is also a receptacle for holy water used, chiefly, in baptismal ceremonies, with religious associations derived from an etymological root in old English and Latin, roughly translated into “a fountain, a spring, or a source”.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBanner subsequently began amassing images of baptismal and holy water fonts from churches around the world. Assembled in its entirety for the first time here Banner has presented the full spectrum of her collection in this aptly named \u003cem\u003eFont Book\u003c\/em\u003e. Resembling something of a supply catalog for the devoted this compendium presents every baptismal font configuration imaginable, along with accompanying church names and location specs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe word \u003cem\u003efont\u003c\/em\u003e points as much to a conceptual social contract as it does to a physical object, and \u003cem\u003eFont Book\u003c\/em\u003e, in utilizing the noun’s connotation as both textual building block and ritualistic vessel for purification, succeeds in taking us beyond the ordinary into realms more indeterminate.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e[publisher's note]\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bywater Bros.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57357816856916,"sku":"A8B-30926","price":25.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1072\/9609\/6596\/files\/isou_203.jpg?v=1790813046","url":"https:\/\/after8books.com\/products\/font-book","provider":"After 8 Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}