Why I Love Books: The Artworks of Charles Hobson / Charles Hobson

Identifier:REF.EC.1981

Dimensions:54 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color) ; 18 cm

Copyright dates:2002

Subjects: Accordion books, Artists' books--Exhibitions., exhibition catalogs, monotypes

Description:Catalogue covering more than fifteen years of the artist's books and related work. Published in conjunction with the artist's retrospective exhibition, curated by Suzanne Royce Silk, at the Bolinas Museum from September 21 to November 17, 2002. Contains 110 four-color images and has been printed in an edition of 2000 copies. In the catalogue the artist describes the process of refining the ideas in each artist's book, often tracking the way in which an idea reaches its conclusion in such a work. "In Charles Hobson's inventions, in their palimpsests and acrobatics, their synecdoche and allusion, are the records of our passion. In these compact excursions we can locate the familiar frames of our knowing--history, physics, the metaphysics of the human couple. In his finely tailored observations we rediscover what we mean by our books."--from the introduction by Barry Lopez