No Longer Innocent: Book Art in America 1960 – 1980
Writer: Betty Bright
Categories: Reference / Exegesis
Reference no.:R/Bri.B/05.00 Place/Shelf:R3
| Book title: | No Longer Innocent: Book Art in America 1960 – 1980 |
| Published by: | Granary Books |
| Year made: | 2005 |
| Place made: | USA |
| Original: | Yes |
| Dimensions: | 178 x 255 |
| Binder: | commercial binding |
| Physical description: | paper back, multi-section |
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| "This bibliographical summary captures the complexities and limits of not only this particular history but of the book art field itself. Let me end [this introduction] with six points that tell what this history will include and what it must leave aside. First, my priority lies in assembling a broad-based U.S. history in which book art's own institutional development, along with the related worlds of art, typography and graphic design, trade book publishing and independent publishing, are considered together with the discussions of specific books and artists... My second point is that this history reflects that book art can translate into fine press or deluxe books as well as the multiple and sculptural manifestations of the bookwork... Third, I have adopted a chronological approach to this history in order to address an amnesia that has long afflicted the field... Fourth, in keeping with my focus on the United States, European artists' books appear here only selectively... Fifth, this history is limited by its use of terminology... Sixth, writing a history about a marginalized art form poses special questions regarding emphasis. Book art has been permeable to influences from the book and art worlds that surround it, but to a great extent book art has also been held separate from the attentions and resources of both the art and book worlds..." Betty Bright (from the introduction) |
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| Writer: | Betty Bright () |
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