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Making Artist Books Today : A Workshop in Poestenkill, New York, August 18th-23rd, 1997 / Wulf D. von Lucious and Gunnar A. Kaldewey, eds.
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REF.EC.1138
vii, [121] p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
1998
Artists' books, Poestenkill (N.Y.)
This is the catalog produced as a result of the Making Artist Books Today workshop held in Poestenkill, NY from August 18-23, 1979.
From Prefaces: “In August ’97, initated by Gunnar A. Kaldewey, book artists and several people closely related to artist’s books as museum expert, librarian and collector met on the estate of the Kaldewey Press in Poestenkill, scattered with studios for papermaking, typesetting, and printing. Five days of presentations, surveys and commentaries as well as extensive inspections of specimen from each of the presses lead to long and fruitful discussions about the different philosophies of the book artists, touching as well many questions of technical finesses and aesthetic devices… the next step was to plan an international traveling exhibition. The work of five presses (which we call the Rocket Five) from Paris, New York, Tampa/Florida, Santa Barbara/California, and Bogota/Columbia will tour to ten cities in South and North America, to Europe and Japan. For these fifty exhibitions this book will provide the theoretical information.”
Contents: The World of the Book: A World for the Book by Hank Hine – The Tactility of Artist Books by Harry Reese – Crossing Borders – the New Aesthetics in Artist Books by Gunnar A. Kaldewey – Artist Book in South America by Luis Angel Parra – Exhibiting Artist Books by Mindell Dubansky – Collecting Contemporary Artist Books by Wulf D. von Lucius. Also included are the addresses of the contributors. This book has been printed in 800 copies plus 20 deluxe copies in a portfolio with proofs from the presses.