| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 249 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and 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. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Artists' books.
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Artists' books. |
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Altered books.
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Altered books. |
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Books in art.
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Books in art. |
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Conceptual art.
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Conceptual art. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Stewart, Garrett. Bookwork. Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2011 9780226773919 (DLC) 2010032666 (OCoLC)652743785 |
| ISBN |
9780226773933 (electronic book) |
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0226773930 (electronic book) |
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1283362872 |
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9781283362870 |
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9780226773919 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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0226773914 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
| Standard No. |
9786613362872 |
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