Art Making Book Making Art : Artists' Books by Artists from the San Francisco Art Institute in Exhibition at the San Francisco Center for the Book / curator Charles Hobson

Art Making Book Making Art : Artists' Books by Artists from the San Francisco Art Institute in Exhibition at the San Francisco Center for the Book / curator Charles Hobson

Books


REF.GEC5.1459
25 p. : ill. ; 23 x 28 cm.
1998
Charles Hobson
Kathleen Burch
George Lithograph
Kathleen Burch
San Francisco
Exhibition catalogs, San Francisco Art Institute, Artists' books
Catalog for the exhibition "Art Making Book Making Art" held at the San Francisco Center for the Book from September 8-November 13, 1998. The exhibition focused on the question of 'what is an artist's book?', exploring the transforming characteristics of form, sequence, flow, structure, and a place to join word and image. Includes an essay titled "On the Music of the Spheres" by Charles Simic, "A Travel Book" by Fred Martin, "The Uneventful Life of Dona Carmen y Costanza" by Inez Storer, "Stain uses Alternating" by Ann Chamberlain, "Fables" by Michael Hannon, and "Territory" by Mary Julia Klimenko. Also includes a checklist of the exhibition. "'What is an artist's book?' is a frequently asked question these days. Every answer I have heard ultimately fails because the imagination of the artists working in the book format exceeds their observers' abilities to create a comprehensive definition. because this exhibit is selected from books by artists who have taught or studied at the institute, there is an enormous variety. It shows what a wonderful rapscallion of a creature the artist's book is and how hard it is to pin down." - Introduction