Cultural Writing. Second edition with new author's preface. When CENTURY was first published ten years ago it was heralded as an indispensable source on the subject. Over the past decade this book has become the definitive text in an emergent field: teachers, librarians, students, artists, and readers turn to the expertise contained on these pages every day. "This work .provides both a critical analysis of the structures themselves and a basis for further reflection on the philosophical and conceptual roles they play" - Paula Frosch, Metropolitan Museum of Art Library, Library Journal.
| Introduction | ||
| 1 | The artist's book as idea and form | 1 |
| 2 | Conceptualizing the book : precedents, poetics and philosophy | 21 |
| 3 | Artists' books & the early 20th-century avant-garde | 45 |
| 4 | The artist's book as a democratic multiple | 69 |
| 5 | The artist's book as a rare and/or auratic object | 93 |
| 6 | The codex and its variations | 121 |
| 7 | Self-reflexivity in book form | 161 |
| 8 | The book as a visual form | 197 |
| 9 | Books as verbal exploration | 227 |
| 10 | The book as sequence : narrative and non-narrative | 257 |
| 11 | The artist's book as an agent of social change | 287 |
| 12 | The book as conceptual space (performance and exhibition) | 309 |
| 13 | The book as document | 335 |
| 14 | Metaphor and form : the artist's book in the 20th century | 357 |
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Cultural Writing. Second edition with new author's preface. When CENTURY was first published ten years ago it was heralded as an indispensable source on the subject. Over the past decade this book has become the definitive text in an emergent field: teachers, librarians, students, artists, and readers turn to the expertise contained on these pages every day. "This work .provides both a critical analysis of the structures themselves and a basis for further reflection on the philosophical and conceptual roles they ...