some notes about artist’s book
Ulises Carrión: “Bookworks are books that are conceived as an expressive unity, that is to say, where the message is the sum of all materials and formal elements.”
Like other postmodern genres, such as installations, artists’ books allow, and even require, versatility in the use of materials; and, by virtue of their built-in complexity, encourage intertextuality as well as multimedia experimentation.
We might find it rewarding to “read’ an artist book in the same manner as we might interpret a performance where act, scene, agent, agency, and purpose, insofar as we can define them, substitute for and reflect one another
from a “poietic”standpoint, subordinates all the parts that go into its making, and, from a theatrical point of view, upstages at every turn of the page its supernumeraries: texts, graphics, binding. For the book to achieve dominance, the artist quite frequently diminishes the signifying powers of text or image
by Renée Riese Hubert & Judd D. Hubert
