Charles Bernstein


Veil #3

1976
Overlaid typing on paper (from series)
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Charles Bernstein

“Almost all of Veil can be deciphered, if only bit by bit, so that Bernstein’s palimpsests do not so much prevent reading as redirect and discipline usual reading habits.”
– Craig Dworkin Reading the Illegible (2003)

Veil’s technical effects are galvanizing, almost conjuring a linguistic shroud that runs words over words in infinite confusion and overlap…that irritates the eyes as much as it fascinates…”
– Jacques Khalip Boston Review (2004)