The Collaborative Artist's Book: Evolving Ideas in Contemporary Poetry and Art

35th Modern Language Association Prize for Contingent Faculty and Independent Scholars, Honorable Mention

The Collaborative Artist’s Book offers a rare glimpse into collaborations between poets and painters from 1945 to the present, and highlights how the artist’s book became a critical form for experimental American artists in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Alexandra Gold provides a broad overview of the artist’s book form and the many ongoing debates and challenges, from the dis...