“A lot of poets are working audiovisually and yet they really get validated only once they start publishing books.”

Caroline Bergvall in conversation with Sophie Robinson – HOW2

http://www.carolinebergvall.com/


Strövtåg i tid och rum, 2009
(Strolls through time and space)
Armchair, books, bags, boxes, radio, clock, etc.
Dimensions: 0.55 x 0.85 x 0,6 m.

Book Art Backgrounders at Deeplinking

Robert The: “I kinda blew a fuse in my senior year—something very strange happened—and I lost my ability to read for a period of a month or two. This sharpened my interest regarding what was actually going on with the symbols that convey meaning on a concrete level.”

William F. Aicher:

“As a person who loves reading and has bought and read literally thousands of books, I never thought I’d say it, but I don’t like reading books anymore. It’s not that I don’t enjoy reading stories, or novels, nonfiction, etc. – it’s that I don’t like reading books. That’s right, the ink-on-paper all bound in one big lump of dead tree things. I can’t stand them.”

March 26–July 7, 2008, MOMA

Featuring works that transform books through a variety of mediums, Book/Shelf stresses an expanded notion of the illustrated book. The exhibition begins with a documentation of Marcel Duchamp’s Unhappy Readymade (1919)—a work created when the artist, while traveling, asked his sister back home to hang a geometry book on his balcony in order to let the wind flip and tear the pages. It continues with works in which artists appropriate books by others, such as a sculpture by Martin Kippenberger made partly of books, and a copy of Duchamp’s catalogue raisonné rebound by David Hammons under the title Holy Bible. Artists who tackle the idea of books in film (William Wegman), sound works (On Kawara), prints (Edward Ruscha), and drawings (Steve Wolfe) are represented as well. Finally, the exhibition surveys a number of artists who have created installations that display books in public contexts, including Brian Belott, Allen Ruppersberg, Josh Smith, and Lawrence Weiner.


“First it became the book of the movie. Now it is the book of the website. Don’t let it happen.”


Dissected book in circular acrylic case.

S T E G E R P H O T O



Smallest book in the world with millipede.

Alison Knowles — The Big Book (1967)

“…an eight foot tall construction … a front cover and several pages, and contains a stove, telephone, chemical toilet, art gallery, electric fan, books and other necessities of life.”


28 March 1997 — Sean Cubitt —
HYPERMETRICS: The co-evolution of voice and machine from typewriter to hypertext



“The book is dead, as God died: the codex of lyric verse did not need to be killed. All lyric now is elegaic.”


“ROEM enables users to download and carry with them electronic books…”

huge-entity

“What is the book?
What is mind?
How can one bridge the two? “

lindA Zacks – I Swallowed a Rainbow…


electronicbookreview.com

“Open the Book, Open the Mind”
July 11-15, 2007
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA



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