Jack Ginsberg Centre for the Book Arts

Exhibition: Artists’ Books from the Ginsberg Collection

Start of the exhibition
Preface 1
Preface 2
Preface 3
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
End note

Chapter 3. Artists' Books as Academic or Didactic Document

An interesting aspect of the artist's book is its use as a carrier of academic or didactic information.

It may operate as a technical guide like Jo Ractliffe and Pippa Skotnes' Mordant Methods (Cat: 201) or as part of a body of academic research at tertiary Fine Art institutions e.g. Susan Lowdermilk's Interior Passage (Cat: 107) and Liz Vels' Logos as Artefact (Cat: 223).