Creating Artists' Books• Cutting-edge idea! • Titles on altered books are topping sales charts • Packed with valuable artists’ resources—galleries, bookstores, Web sites, book fairs, exhibitions Famous artists from David Hockney and Andy Warhol to Gilbert and George have created their own books—distinctive bound collections of work, sometimes variations on the popular altered-book craze. Now any artist can follow in the booksteps of these well-known muses, with the help ofCreating Artists’ Books. Author Sarah Bodman, an expert on artists’ books, gives wonderful inspiration and practical guidance on printmaking processes for making books, digital output and computer-based books, assembling books with limited resources, and creating altered books. An invaluable appendix lists bookstores and galleries that sell and exhibit artists’ book; book arts collections, archives, and organizations; book fairs; related Web sites; and more.Creating Artists’ Booksis packed with ideas, inspiration, and information from cover to cover. |
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accordion accordion format ALTERED BOOKS Architectural Bookwork artist's book fairs artwork BINDING BOOKS book artists book arts BOOK ARTS WEBSITES book pages Bookartbookshop bookbinding bookcloth BOOKS AND ARCHIVES Bookshop Bristol Brooklyn Centre Circle Press collaborative colour COMPUTER-BASED BOOKS copies cover CREATING ARTISTS crow David Ferry DIGITAL OUTPUT digital print display edition of 500 editions of artists examples fine press flysheet folded FORM FOLLOWS FUNCTION Gallery grain direction Guy Begbie handmade hole inkjet print inspiration ISBN Keith Smith Books Lawrence Weiner letterpress Liam Gillick Library London Mark Mark Pawson materials MULTIPLES AND ZINES Museum number of books offset printed organisations OUTPUT AND COMPUTER-BASED PAPER AND BINDING photocopier photographs pop-up PRINTMAKING produced programmes Quote taken screenprint sculptural SELECTING PAPER sewing sewn Sienkiewicza Street Sowden spine Steve McPherson Street subject matter taken with kind thread traditional typeface UNIQUE BOOKS unique bookwork viewer York ZINES