FURNIVAL, John
(*1933)
FURNIVAL, John (29 May 1933). Trained as a visual artist and for many years a professor at the Bath Academy in western England, Furnival in the early sixties developed a highly original and indubitably personal style of building up layers of words, usually chosen with taste and literacy, into architecturally representational structures, done not on small sheets of paper but on pieces of wood (doors, actually), six feet high and a few feet wide. In the words that make the shape of La Tour Eiffel…