Alas - Sophie Nys philosophy The Office of Metropolitan Architecture’s

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Alas - Sophie Nys philosophy The Office of Metropolitan Architecture’sFirst published in 1759, Laurence Sternes The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy is widely considered a revolutionary novel, and its style is marked by digression, double entendre, and graphic devices. In Alas, artist Sophie Nys obsesses about one of these devices, the so called black page, famously paired with the line, Alas, poor Yorick! She compiles a remarkable collection of black pages, all gathered from more than 100 different editions of