Artist’s Book
アーティストブック / 1960s– / Technique / Publishing and Editing
Designs the book not as a container but as the work itself — binding, sequence, paper, repetition and the reader's hands included.
The book as matter / Sequential pages / Self-publishing / Reader interaction
Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Comparing historical works and their conditions · Deciding which principles survive translation to today's media
- Type
- Observe the type and composition of reference works
- Composition
- Extract the one principle that steers the eye
- Material
- Verify the technique's own materials, process and support
- Caution
- Not the same as a well-designed monograph. Watch how the book's structure acts on its content.
- Further study
- Dieter Roth / Ed Ruscha / Tauba Auerbach