Christian Verdun

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Christian Verdun is an American artist best known for his work on the cut up Burrough's style poetry collage Paradox. In 2010, he released another poetry assemblage utilizing the style of the previous work titled escape. Christian is currently attending UC Davis.

Paradox

Paradox is a cut up poetry collage forming a picture of Abraham Lincoln being Assassinated at Ford's Theater. The piece took roughly 3 years to complete.^[1] It is composed entirely of magazines which were obtained for free or dumpster dived from book stores. The name is derived from the literary device, the paradox is an anomalous juxtaposition of incongruous ideas for the sake of striking exposition or unexpected insight. It functions as a method of literary composition - and analysis - which involves examining apparently contradictory statements and drawing conclusions either to reconcile them or to explain their presence.^[2]

Escape

In 2010, Christian Verdun finished his second piece escape which was done using the same style of his previous work. He continued the trend of using pictures of major historical significance. However this time he moved to mixing French and English text, presumably because of the French colonization of Vietnam. This image is much smaller measuring 12 inches by 12 inches.

See also

• Paradox Website Click to Zoom
• Escape Website Click to Zoom

References

1. ^ Chicago Sun Times Interview
2. ^ Rescher, Nicholas. Paradoxes: Their Roots, Range, and Resolution. Open Court: Chicago, 2001.

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