Artist's books fuse text and art in an interactive sculpture — children's books for grown-ups, in a way.
They tell stories using text, pictures, and structure. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]
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shades of grey
three piece binding:
parchment document spine,
pastepaper covers,
pastepaper text
Cut-outs spell
P E R M U T A T I O N S
in the negative space, to
reveal the text of
Aphra Behn's
Love Letter's to a Gentleman
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Aerial Theosophy
2 volume set
reproduction 18th C marbled paper cover, monoprint Encyclopedia Britannica pages, digitally typeset text {download text here}
Timothy Ely's drumleaf binding structure, Gary Frost's case structure
Paper City, Book=Object group show, 2011
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Gone to Texas
Bradel binding:
rattlesnake spine,
goatskin spine
text composed of statistics, folksongs, and imagery from Texas, 'printed' using photocopy transfer
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Two Poems:
Anna Akhmatova: Never Ask God for Anything
Andre Breton: Lachez Tout
The binding is a modified quarter leather, with a three-quarter alum-tawed pigskin with a fuchsia calfskin border along the tail. Text typed using a 1923 Underwood typewriter onto "vellum" paper.
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Dos a dos binding
veneer boards
quarter leather, with
foredge clasps
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Doublewall Slipcase
parchment cover
lined in suede
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