The book as art : artists' books from the National Museum of Women in the arts / Krystyna Wasserman ; with essays by Johanna Drucker and Audrey Niffenegger.

"Artists' books have emerged over the last twenty-five years as one of the most engaging contemporary art forms, addressing subjects from poetry to politics, incorporating a full spectrum of artistic media and bookmaking methods, and taking every conceivable form. Female painters, sculptor...

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Main Author: Wasserman, Krystyna.
Other Authors: Drucker, Johanna, 1952-, Niffenegger, Audrey.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Princeton Architectural Press, [2007]
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Table of Contents:
  • What does it mean to make a book? / Audrey Niffenegger
  • Intimate authority / Johanna Drucker
  • The brightest heaven of invention / Krystyna Wasserman
  • Storytellers
  • Nature
  • Food and the body
  • Autobiographers
  • Dreamers and magicians
  • Historians
  • Mothers, daughters, and wives
  • Travelers
  • Inspired by the muses.