Rebuilding the Book

In the face of digital and other emergent technologies, where is the book today—what are its limits? Conversely, what is its essence? We'll blend the history of the book and its relationship to the visual arts with the creation of inventive book structures. Slide lectures and discussions will cover the emergence of writing and its gradual incorporation into book structures from tablet through scroll to codex, focusing on the development of the relationship between text and image, with a focus on late 19th century livre d’artiste, the “democratic multiple” (1960s); and two contemporary developments: the sculptural book and the altered book.