ZELEVANSKY, Paul

Trained in painting, Zelevansky developed in his twenties a unique and precociously mature style of Visual Poetry that mixed texts of his own authorship, set with various typefaces (including rubber-stamped), with graphic drawings. Zelevansky makes each medium of communication as important as the others, so that his works take their rightful place in a tradition that includes both William Blake and Hebrew illuminated manuscripts. This style informs not only the modest Sweep (1979),...