Artist's Books Künstler-Bücher Buchobjekte. Livres d'artistes. Libri Oggetti.
Item date(s): 1986
Hermann Havekost
- (catalogue by) Klaus Groh Christiane Dierks Anke Schröder
Pages: 1408pp Size: 195mm Edition: #481/1000
Sub-type: Catalogue
Place publication: Oldenburg, Germany Publisher: University of Oldenberg ISBN: 3-8142-0152-3 LOC 88129843 Exhibition 2019-1
Additional notes: This is an interesting example of the grafting of bibliography and artist's book in that it presents as an intricate and unique four-part fold-out structure making reading difficult!
Structurally, it consists of four separate triangular blocks of pages, sewn, bound and joined by a malleable section of book cloth to form either a flat book or a free-standing 3-dimensional object.
It thus folds closed with four spines, each with the title in one of these languages: English, French, Italian and German, two of which present next to one another on the bookshelf.
Each section is by one of the named authors.
Exhibition notes: Samplings: International Artists' Books and Archive on the Book Arts