Lush visualizations of ON THE ROAD's language
Stephanie sez, "NotCot has a post up about Stephanie Posavec's (not me) incredibly detailed graphic artwork in which she exhaustively analyzes the language and thematic structure of Jack Kerouac's On The Road, rendering the data into amazingly beautiful Tufteian info-graphics that are as elegant as they are data-rich. In 'Literary Organism' the entire beat classic is represented as an array of flowers, with petals and blossoms accurately reflecting the word and paragraph count of each chapter. Colors are assigned based on the subject of each section, like cyan for 'Dean Moriarty,' & tan for 'Parties, drinking, & drugs' It's breathtaking." Link to Posavec at the Sheffield Galleries and Museums Trust, Link to Notcot
See also:
Jack Kerouac's hand-drawn cover for On the Road
Joyce Johnson: Jack Kerouac and the 50th anniversary of On The Road
Unedited On The Road to be published
Coppola adapting On the Road
Steve Allen interviews Jack Kerouac
Kerouac curator invents copyright laws to keep photographers away
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