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1,000 Artists' Books: Exploring the Book As Art
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Salamony, Sandra, Author.
- Series:
- 1000
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (321 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- 1000 artists' books
- 1,000 Artists’ Books
- 1,000 Artists' Books
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] Quayside 2012
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The book is a timeless art form, one that is as alive today as ever before, and artists continue to explore and explode the boundaries of what a book is and can be. In this beautiful collection, you will experience close-up various aspects of hand-crafted books: covers, bindings, scrolls, folded and origami structures and books made from found objects. You will find richly illustrated and calligraphed pages as well as books created from a variety of printed processes. Ingenuity and creativity abounds in this carefully curated collection of both historically important and modern works.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Title
- CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- CODEX BOOKS: Books with pages joined to make a spine
- ACCORDION AND FOLDABLE BOOKS: Books with multiple-fold pages
- SINGLE-SHEET BOOKS: Books with single-sheet pages
- SCULPTURAL BOOKS: Books made from objects and objects made into books
- IMAGE DIRECTORY
- DIRECTORY OF ARTISTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- ABOUT THE AUTHORS.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781610599474
- 1610599470
- OCLC:
- 1293252041
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