Curator of the Baylor Book Arts Collection
Introduction
What is an artist's book?
An artist’s book is a medium of artistic expression that uses the form or function of “book” as inspiration. It is the artistic initiative seen in the illustration, choice of materials, creation process, layout and design that makes it an art object. . . .What truly makes an artist’s book is the artist’s intent, and artists have used the book as inspiration in a myriad of ways and techniques, from traditional to the experimental. The book could be made through fine press printing or hand-crafted, the pages illustrated with computer-generated images or cheap photocopies; books became sculptures, tiny and gargantuan; books were sliced up and reconfigured, made from all kinds of materials with unconventional objects incorporated, in unique or limited editions, or produced in multiple copies. With all sorts of ideas behind them, artists continue to challenge the idea, content and structure of the traditional book.
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Artists' books at the open houses
Selections at the open house on 8 April:
Agnew, Lynn, Robin Hruska, and Susan Lange, and Mary Jeanne Linford. Listen, can you hear me?
Archetype Press. Brother can you spare a dime?: a typographic performance of songs of the Great Depression
Chen, Julie. Panorama
Plank, Carrie Ann. Venezia
Shafter, Jamie. Mix & match families
Wagner-Lawler, Melissa. In the event of a moon disaster
Samson-Talleur, Linda. The Phoenix
Serpas, Martha and Michele Burgess. The diener
Wait, Laura. Monumentum arbusti: a celebration of trees
Cooksey, Gabrielle. Monsters & beasts: tales imagined from Greek myths
Chen, Julie. Full circle
Pirkle, Amy. When you are old
Davidson, Laura. Library book
Zanten, Merike. Bounties of nature
Thomas, Peter. Time I$
Timm, Jill. Wire act
Baldridge, Jamie. The everywhere chronicles
Ziegler, Ellen. Imbue
Weston, Heather. A diction
Weston, Heather. Borges and I
Weston, Heather. Flip read
Weston, Heather. Grey matter: arguing with Descartes
Selections at the open house on 15 April 2016:
Ephemera : poems / by Robert Pinsky ; prints by Karen Kunc
Trio / Kinsey, Haswell, Hess
Nan / by Alisa C. Banks
The quilts of Gee's Bend vol. 2 / by Carolyn Shattuck.
Blue / by Aimee Lee.
The beads in my hand / by Sammy Lee.
"What doesn't kill you" / Alicia Griswold.
Khorlo in blues / [Mark Head].
[Bare feet]. / Susan Joy Share.
[Mending ] / Elizabeth Sheehan].
Ecomenical / [Tara O'Brien].
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[Great outfit]/ by Susan Joy Share. Incessant white noise / Karen Kunc. Giant child manifesto / by Mare Blocker.
Selections at the open house on 22 April 2016:
[Forest stories snake] / [Mary Ellen Long] Herbarium / poem by Marie Luise Kaschnitz ; etchings by Michele Burgess. [Bounties of nature]. Zanten, Merika. Grove / Clifton Meador. Mitch Dobrowner : edited by John Wood ; with an essay by Dafydd Wood; published by Steven Albahari. A tree within/ Octavio Paz Gardens of delights : bouquets of flora & botanical poetry / [Jim Machacek & Sibyl Rubottom]. The alder / a poem by William Everson ; illustrations by Donna Thomas. A gypsy caravan / by Kenneth Grahame ; [illustrated by] Peter & Donna Thomas Time i$ / P & D Thomas. Papermaking in seventeenth century England / Peter & Donna Thomas Wilderness : a quote by Sigurd Olson I love you! Peter & Donna Thomas
Selections at the open house on 29 April 2016:
Sanctus sonorensis / Philip Zimmermann. The new city : a poem / by MacLean Gander ; photographs by Jefferson Hayman Faith medicine / Jamie Weaver Orders / Emily Tipps. [20th century fossil book ] / Vince Koloski] Word / written and produced by the Scripps College typography class, with the help of Kitty Maryatt. Synesthesia / Jan Owen. A guide to higher learning / Julie Chen View / Julie Chen Circumstantial gravity / Macey Ley. The lost journals of Sacajewea / by Debra Magpie Earling ; photo-interventions by Peter Rutledge Koch. Promenade--a voyeur's guide to America : 26 woodcuts / by Art Hazelwood.
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