Stanford University Libraries: "Perrée's discussion of artists' books centers around works produced during and after the 1960s, for, as he argues, 'the artist's book especially rhymes with an age in which traditional media and forms of expression were being abandoned because they stood for an art world that many artists had simply had enough of' (19). He avoids providing a definition of the art form and instead concentrates upon several important themes: artists' books in his home country of the Netherlands; the line that can--or cannot--be drawn between artists' books and exhibition catalogs (here he uses Lauf and Philpot's Artist/Author as an example); the physical constraints involved in exhibiting books; the philosophical and fiscal motivations of these books' publishers. Perrée intersperses examples with his essays; as they are relatively few in number, the text as a whole becomes much more conceptually than visually focused."

Ref: 1135