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Century of Artists' Books

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ISBN-10: 1887123695

ISBN-13: 9781887123693

Edition: 2004

Authors: Johanna Drucker

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List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Granary Books, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/2/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 378
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English

Johanna Drucker is the Robertson Professor of Media Studies in the Department of English at the University of Virginia. She is the author of several books, including The Visible Word, The Alphabetic Labyrinth, The Century of Artists' Books, and Figuring the Word.

Introduction
The artist's book as idea and form
Conceptualizing the book : precedents, poetics and philosophy
Artists' books & the early 20th-century avant-garde
The artist's book as a democratic multiple
The artist's book as a rare and/or auratic object
The codex and its variations
Self-reflexivity in book form
The book as a visual form
Books as verbal exploration
The book as sequence : narrative and non-narrative
The artist's book as an agent of social change
The book as conceptual space (performance and exhibition)
The book as document
Metaphor and form : the artist's book in the 20th century