You might also like

Availability alert

More about Bookwork

• Book details
• Synopsis
• Trending among others

You get 234 loyalty points

Book synopsis

Bookwork takes our passion for books to its logical extreme - by studying artists who employ found or simulated books as a sculptural medium and investigating the conceptual labor behind this proliferating international art practice. Garrett Stewart looks at hundreds of book-like objects, alone or as part of gallery installations, in this original account of works that force attention upon a book's material identity and cultural resonance. Less an inquiry into the artist's book than an exploration of the book's contemporary objecthood, Stewart's stimulating blend of visual theory and bibliophilia traces the lineage of these aggressive artifacts from the 1919 Unhappy Readymade of Marcel Duchamp down to the current crisis of paper-based media in the digital era. Ranging from appropriated to fabricated book forms, from hacksawed discards to the giant lead folios of Anselm Kiefer, the unreadable books illustrated and discussed in Bookwork offer timely lessons in the history of reading, writing, and art making.

Book details

Book category Books in English The arts The arts: general issues Theory of art

• Full title: Bookwork
• Subtitle: Medium to Object to Concept to Art
• Author: Garrett Stewart
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 272
• EAN: 9780226773919
• ISBN: 0226773914
• ID: 04549704
• Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
• Weight: 1180 g
• Dimensions: 224 × 286 × 22 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. June 2011

Trending among others

---

---

---