from “life and its shadow: the art/life dichotomy”
“. . . what differentiates the artist’s book from normal books is that the artist’s book always transcends its subject matter, including its own text. Within the category of artists’ books there exist...
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the big book
The Big Book Art in America, Summer 1968 Bill Wilson Photographs by Peter Moore Constructed of fantasy and plastics, of metaphor and familiar housewares, this creation is an abode for body and spirit –...
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(from The Journal of Typographic Research, July 1968) Figure 5. The Big Book, 1964–1967, by Alison Knowles. Courtesy of the artist. The Big Book is not a product, but a process, and the person using...
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A failure of book design: Hamid Dabashi’s critique of the cover of Azar Nafisi’s Reading Lolita in Tehran. An interview with Hamid Dabashi that touches on the subject. Two insightful posts (1, 2) by...
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the people have the right / to remove a government from power
(Alison Knowles, from Time Samples, 2006. PDF – with photos of the book & an essay by George Quasha – available here.)
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