Visual Prose

 or, vispro.

What is that? I am seeking to explicate some parameters in which to frame various artworks one could term vispro and through visual examples elucidate a philosophy for the existence of vispro.  Through the use and discussion of unusual and everyday examples of vispro, I wish to test if vispro can exist within a valid theoretical framework. I intend using the Liber Linteus (a linen book) otherwise known as the linen book of Zagreb to typify a physical manifestation of vispro. It is no longer intact as Mihajlo Barić unwrapped the relic, but the photograph below (date unknown) would exemplify the embodiment of vispro. 


The mummy of Zagreb with fragments of the Liber Linteus (http://www.geocities.ws/jackiesixx/caere/linteus.htm) date of photograph unknown.



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