Since 2012 the artist Anke Becker draws the visual poems economic words: With a black marker, words and whole sentences are crossed out from newspaper clippings of the business newspaper Financial Times. Only isolated words remain visible. Previously hidden meaning emerges beyond stock exchange quotations and international money flows.

economic words are laconic notations of a subjective character, filtered out of journalistic texts that analyze general economic events. In the book, a new, extensive text body of words and lines is created from a selection of full-size economic words: Visually minimalist but contentwise baroquely sprawling and meandering.

To date, over 2,000 of the small-format text drawings exist on newspaper clippings. All economic words have been archived on a blog since 2012 in the order in which they were created: www.economicwords.com.

With this publication, two new versions of the project are available at once: as a printed book with 231 images and a volume of 480 pages and an e-book with texts by Robin Detje and Beate Tröger, 299 images and audio files of the spoken poems.

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