Book Review: The Book as Art - Artists' Books from the National Museum of Women in the Arts by Krystyna Wasserman |
| Published: August 18, 2007, 3:23 am |
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The National Museum of Women in the Arts opened in 1981 and is a private, non-profit museum in Washington, D.C. In addition to an extensive collection of works by women, the museum specializes in collecting artists' books. The artist book is an object where the artifact is the art, "a work of art that is conceived and executed as a book and does not exist in any other form or format," according to Wasserman. The object does not exist to simply convey information, but to engage the viewer/reader in a multi-sensual fashion. In that, it is similar to other contemporary art forms that seek to combine multiple mediums. The museum has a wide international collection, containing some of the foremost craftspeople in the field.The NMWA released a series of monographs detailing highlights of the collection. These short booklets were printed on thick, handmade paper but the reproductions were in black and white and gave little detail, especially to the viewer who did not attend [ Full article ] |
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