Book + Art: Handcrafting Artists' Books

by Dorothy Simpson Krause

Overview

Discover what happens when you add artmaking and bookbinding together.

With Book + Art, explore the basics of surfaces, images and words in order to create provocative works of art with layers of meaning. Whether you're altering a pre-made book or creating your own, here you'll find both the instruction and the inspiration to get it done. In addition to learning mixed-media techniques—such as how to age paper, transfer images and make your own monoprints—you'll be given step-by-step instruction for numerous book structures including:

   • Single-fold and bi-fold books
   • Simple and extended accordions
   • Perfect bindings
   • Side-sewn books
   • Single- and multiple-signature books
   • Boxes
   • Unbound collections


Add the art of the book and the book as art to your own artmaking repertoire today and start making your own meaningful artists' books.

Foreword by Judith A. Hoffberg, Editor and Publisher of Umbrella.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781440315671
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	05/12/2009
Sold by:	Penguin Group
Format:	eBook
Pages:	144
File size:	23 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.

About the Author

Dorothy Simpson Krause is a book artist, painter, collage-maker and printmaker who has combined traditional media with digital applications since the late 1960's. She is a Professor Emeritus at the Massachusetts College of Art, where she founded the Computer Arts Center. Dorothy is co-author of Digital Art Studio: Techniques for Combining Inkjet Printing with Traditional Art Materials.