Bookwork : medium to object to concept to art / Garrett Stewart.

By:

Stewart, Garrett [author.]

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780226773933
0226773930
1283362872
9781283362870
9780226773919
0226773914

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Bookwork.DDC classification:

702.8 709.04/082

LOC classification:

N7433.3.S74 2011

Online resources:

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Contents:

List of Illustrations; Frontmatters; Prologue/Catalog: An Exhibit in Mind; 1. The Thing of It Is; 2. Readybound; 3. Demediated Means; 4. Object Lessons; 5. Anarchives; 6. Politics and the Bibliobjet; Endpapers; Notes; Index.

Summary: "There they rest, inert, impertinent, in gallery space--those book forms either imitated or mutilated, replicas of reading matter or its vestiges. Strange, after its long and robust career, for the book to take early retirement in a museum, not as rare manuscript but as functionless sculpture. Readymade or constructed, such book shapes are canceled as text when deposited as gallery objects, shut off from their normal reading when not, in some yet more drastic way, dismembered or reassembled." So begins Bookwork, which follows our passion for books to its logical extreme in artists who employ fo.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

"There they rest, inert, impertinent, in gallery space--those book forms either imitated or mutilated, replicas of reading matter or its vestiges. Strange, after its long and robust career, for the book to take early retirement in a museum, not as rare manuscript but as functionless sculpture. Readymade or constructed, such book shapes are canceled as text when deposited as gallery objects, shut off from their normal reading when not, in some yet more drastic way, dismembered or reassembled." So begins Bookwork, which follows our passion for books to its logical extreme in artists who employ fo.

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