Australian artists books / Alex Selenitsch

Identifier:REF.AM.1978

Dimensions:121 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.

Copyright dates:2008

Subjects: Austrian, artists' books, collected works

Description:"Australian artists books presents selected works from the collection of the National Gallery of Australia which holds over 1000 artists books. Australian artists books contains over 135 illustrations from the featured twenty books. It discusses approaches to artists books by Ian Burn, Robert Jacks, Bea Maddock and Mike Parr, features an in-depth analysis of works by an additional sixteen artists and includes an illustrated checklist."--book jacket Table of Contents: Director's foreword / Ron Radford -- Introduction -- Four approaches to artists' books -- Ian Burn: the noise of the machine -- Robert Jacks: the artist's touch -- Bea Maddock: the daily self -- Mike Parr: hundreds of pages -- Selected artists' books -- 'Requiem to an epidermis', Gaynor Cardew -- 'Sketch-of-book', Christopher Croft -- 'Fire-grid', Ross Grounds -- 'Spickes', Alexander Hamilton -- 'On a ray of winter sun', Petr Herel -- 'Untitled (panoramic boxed set)', Ruth Johnstone -- 'Things 1, Things 2, Things 3', Maria Kozic -- 'Th Wa wi neve en', Ruark Lewis -- 'Flick book', Jennifer Marshall -- 'Not titled [twenty-six concepts]', Ian Milliss -- 'Multiple Constantinoples', Neil Roberts (coordinator) -- 'Sub-stations', Bruce Searle -- 'Art book', Martin Sharp -- 'Eng', Paul Uhlmann -- 'Black rubber stamp syndrome', Murray Walker -- 'Walking to Tebuatarawa', Robin White -- List of books by the featured artists -- Selected references.