Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven (1874 – 1927)
Topor’s works are dominated by a sense of irrational everyday menace that could be interpreted as humour
are essentially leftovers from the engraving printing process
28 not numbered pages (if one counts pages glued together as separate)
he continued to write in French as well as Italian
Les Tableaux pictograms Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven (1874 –Published on the occasion of an exhibition at Galerie Gatan in Carouge, Switzerland, 1978; a series of reproduced b w photographs showing a bowl with chopsticks, accompanied by quotes from historic poems sayings by William Blake, Jesus Christ, Thomas Hardy, Christopher Marlowe, and John Keats. Concertina in soft cover, 21 x 15,5 cm, 10 not numbered pages, Carouge (1978)