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Figuring the Word
Essays on Books, Writing and Visual Poetics.

Item date(s): 1998

Johanna Drucker


Pages: xiv, 312pp
Size: 229mm


Place publication: New York
Publisher: Granary Books
ISBN: 1-887123-23-7

Additional notes:
Nine of the essays are indexed in this bibliography.

Illustrated on page 64 of When will the book be done? By Steven Clay, 2001.

Ref: 0296

Articles

Through Light and the Alphabet
 Matthew G. Kirschenbaum (interview with)
 Johanna Drucker (interview by)
   p9
   Johanna Drucker. This interview was conducted electronically in 1996 and appeared in the online journal Post-Modern Culture in 1997.

Experimental/Visual/Concrete
 Johanna Drucker (essay by)
   p110
   This piece was published in Experimental-Visual-Concrete: Avant-Garde Poetry Since the 1960s, a special issue of Avant-Garde Critical Studies #10, 1996.

Letterpress Languare: Typography as a Medium for the Visual Representation of Language
 Johanna Drucker (essay by)
   p146

Corona Palimpsest: Present Tensions of the Book
 Johanna Drucker (essay by)
   p167
   This piece as written to accompany the exhibition of The Corona Palimpsest when it was first shown at Cristinerose Gallery in New York City, 1995.

Critical Metalanguage for the Artist's Book
 Johanna Drucker (essay by)
   p171
   Written for a symposium organised by Charles Alexander at Minnesota Center for the Book Arts, Spring 1994. First published in the volume of essays, Talking the Boundless Book, 1995.

The  Myth of the Democratic Multiple
 Johanna Drucker (essay by)
   p175
   This piece appeared in ArtPapers, October 1997, in a special feature on artists' books.

Offset: The Work of Mechanical Art in the Age of Electronic (Re)production
 Johanna Drucker (essay by)
   p184
   Written for the catalogue Offset: Artists Book and Prints, to accompany the exhibition curated by Brad Freeman at Granary Book, NYC, September 1993

Checklist of Artist's Books: 1972 to 1998
 Johanna Drucker (biographies by)
   p299

Iliazd and the Book as a Form of Art
 Johanna Drucker (essay by)
   p194
   SK 130
   First published in The Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts, Winter 1988.







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