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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 ...
Čiricaitė E.
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Artists’ Books as Resistant Transmitters [PDF]
Since the early 1970s, the origins of artists’ books have been extensively discussed and documented (Drücker, Lauf, Lippard, Phillpot, Gilbert et al.), yet the genre continues to generate new questions and paradoxes regarding its place and status within the visual arts as a primary medium. Whilst the conception of contemporary artists’ books lay in the
Jo Milne
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Artistic Research in Artists’ Books
The phenomenon of artistic research attracts considerable attention because of the growing integration between art, design and science. At the same time, it remains a challenging research subject that is interpreted differently by various scientists, designers and artists.
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This article introduces experimental artists’ books created in the interstices between technology and tradition. The series of books are created by utilizing scraps produced via flexographic label printing. Each book is constituted by means of the accumulation of paper on the machine, which introduces a never-ending page structure as a result of the ...
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The Artist’s Book in the Age of Digital Reproduction: Walter Benjamin and the Artist’s Book [PDF]
Walter Benjamin, who was familiar with the pre-Second World War avant-garde, argued that mechanization threatens the aura of art objects. The digital revolution has been seen as reconfirming Benjamin’s thesis, but the digital can be seen to reaffirm the value of the actual, physical artist’s book, and moreover, artists have exploited the digital—as ...
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Correction to: On Photographing Artists' Books. [PDF]
Čiricaitė E.
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A book is not only a carrier of information, but also the way of its aesthetic visualization. This actualizes the problem of understanding a book as an artistic artifact. The study of the book in this context implies the identification of several aspects: the art of the book; the existence of the book as an exhibit of museum and exhibition art space ...
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In this essay I will attempt to report on the field of contemporary artist books from a point of view based upon my personal and direct experiences at recent artist book conferences in the US, as the founder and editor of JAB—the Journal of Artists’ Books, as a book artist myself, and as a staff member of the graduate program in Book & Paper Arts ...
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Contemporary Artists' Books and the Intimate Aesthetics of Illness. [PDF]
Bolaki S.
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