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Books, Scrolls and Ripples: In Search of an Audience through the Printed Works of Helen Douglas
In this interview, artist and small press publisher Dr. Helen Douglas appraises the development of the artist’s book from its emergence in the 1950s and 1960s to seeking public recognition as a bone fide art form in the mid-1970s, through to the ...
Chris Taylor
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‘Out of the shadows? Discovering Mary Warburg’. Review of: Hedinger, Bärbel; Diers, Michael (Eds.): Mary Warburg. Porträt einer Künstlerin. Leben, Werk, München: Hirmer Verlag 2020 [PDF]
This book review discusses the lavishly illustrated catalogue raisonné of the work of Mary Warburg, nee Hertz. Warburg is undoubtedly best known as the wife of art historian Aby Warburg.
Hans Christian Hönes
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On Photographing Artists’ Books [PDF]
Abstract Artists’ books are challenging to photograph. They function as a unit of tightly conceptually-bound visual, textual and material elements in addition to a heightened self-awareness of the work's booksness. Binding, size, weight, and shape of the book, translucency, texture, thickness of paper, placement of images and/or text ...
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Eva Billow as picture book artist and graphic designer. The 1940’s and 50’s was a dynamic period for the Nordic picture book. There is a general aspiration to explore picture book aesthetics, a need to find imagery and expressions capturing a new era. In
Elina Druker
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The impetus of contemporary scientific revolutions, artists turned to what is known as the artist’s book as one of the methods of artistic expression , so the artist’s book depends on all forms of contemporary art, such as drawing, photography ...
Ebtsam El Rashid
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Georgia Russell’s Scalpelled Books as Visual Metaphors
The presence of the written word in the work of Scottish artist Georgia Russell denotes an attraction for the evocative power of the term. Since her arrival in France, the artist has used the book as a medium, and her cutting technique appropriates ...
Anne Béchard-Léauté
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Lucia Marcucci, maestra verbovisiva
This article considers the work of visual-poetry artist and poet Lucia Marcucci. It aims to exemplify the complexity and aesthetic importance of her works.
Federico Fastelli
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Elena Fumagalli, Raffaella Morselli, edited by, The Court Artist in Seventeenth-Century Italy
Recensione / Book review Elena Fumagalli, Raffaella Morselli, edited by (2014), The Court Artist in Seventeenth-Century Italy, Roma: Viella, 246 pp.
Francesca Coltrinari
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“Fragile Possibilities”: The Role of the Artist’s Book in Public Art
Writing during the millennium, not long after the installation of Antony Gormley’s The Angel of the North, artist and publisher Simon Cutts criticised the dominance of monumentalism within the field of public art.
Elaine Speight, Charles Quick
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Past’s Present: Artist’s Books by José Oliveira
José Oliveira is a book artist who takes inspiration from the history and evolution of the Western book and of Western writing. His artist’s books take the form of codices, scrolls and leporellos and embody the beliefs, grief and hopes of their author ...
Catarina Figueiredo Cardoso
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