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Artist Books
What they are not…
• They are not children's books.• They are not sketch books.• They are not diaries.• They are not blank books.• They are not exhibition catalogs.• They are not reproductions of a body of an
artist's work.• They are not art books.
Art works in the form of books.
How are they different from other artworks?
• They are usually portable.• They are meant to be interacted with.• They are somewhat intimate.• They go beyond the purpose of decoration.
They can contain stories.
They can contain some text, but mostly images.
They can contain images accompanied by some text.
Or have no text at all.
They can be completely abstract.
They can be in monochrome.
They can be made of recycled paper.
They can be tiny.
They can have a very different layout than ‘usual’ books.
They can have very complex binding.
Or very simple binding.
