The black page in Tristram Shandy
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The first edition of Tristram Shandy, at the point in the narrative where the death of Yorick occurs, a black page[1] is inserted to express the mourning, in an attempt to mix fiction with visual poetry.
Another famous example of a black page[] is in Robert Fludd's Utriusque cosmi maioris scilicet et minoris metaphysica, published by Oppenheim (1617).
The black of Shandy's and Fludd's is found again in the 19th century in an all-black painting by poet Paul Bilhaud called Negroes Fighting in a Cellar at Night and in the 20th century in Kazimir Malevich's monochrome painting Black Square [2].
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- The author Sterne, played with typography on other pages[3] of the book.
- A complete expo on the oddity of Tristram Shandy is found here[4].
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