Anca Cristofovici & Barbara Montefalcone: Hands-on / Hands-0ff

Abstract

In 1994 the book artist and theorist Johanna Drucker published the groundbreaking study A Century of Artist Books, in which she describes the important tradition of books that sit at the intersection of text and artwork. Unlike the livre d’artiste, or illustrated book, the artist book blurs the binary of text and image. It calls attention to the book’s material aspects as well as its various stages of production. It also interrogates the concept of “bookness,” reflexively commenting upon the ...