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Pages from Books That Don't Exist: The Fully Illustrated Catalogue from an Exhibit That Didn't Take Place / Rosaire Appel
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REF.EC.1209
59 p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
2007
Exhibition catalogs, Artists' books
This is an illustrated catalog for the exhibit by Rosaire Appel (artist member at the Center for Book Arts) that didn’t exist. The pages were created in 2004 and the catalog produced in 2007. Includes full-color illustrated pages. Artist’s note on her work: “As a digital artist/ photographer/ writer I've consistently gravitated toward the book form- as container, receptacle - and for the way the book form distributes content over time, rather than in one fell swoop. The time element -duration - which allows content to grow and cross pollinate is particularly useful to my way of working - a gradual expansion of a theme, variations and branches. I've also been drawn to the book form for the practicalities of portability. And for the intimate nature of a handheld object, the singularity of reading, individual rather than public viewing. As for content, I tread the flexible boundary of suggestion between familiar and abstraction.” Signed by the author.