The print catalogue is available free of charge at the front desk of the Pulitzer, or you are welcome to download and print your own copy here.

At the threshold of the exhibition is a concordance.  By its definition, a concordance is an alphabetical arrangement of the principal words of a book with reference to the passage in which each word occurs.  A concordance is also an agreement, harmony.

The printed concordance, stacked on the first table in the Pulitzer’s entrance gallery, draws on an older definition of the word concordance: a composition combining and harmonizing various accounts.

The words that comprise the two vertical spines of the composition serve as principal words describing the interior register of the space of the Pulitzer as stylus inhabits it. 

In the concordance, published weekly, horizontal lines of text which contain the selected “spine words” are lifted from international English language newspapers.  The selected lines are thus pulled from their original context in the newspaper and arranged according to the alphabetized list of principal words. Through this process, the composition intersects the interior structure of stylus with the exterior world of events.

 Students from the Sam Fox School of Art and Design at Washington University in St. Louis are posting these images around town as part of the Urban Wave project. 

If you see one in your neighborhood, take a photo and add it to our Flickr group!  Or select an image to the left and download your own.