This is a collection of seminal artists' books examined through four different avenues--looking, telling, thinking, and collecting.

A guide to hand book-binding.

A new look at the man who gave us ideas "the medium is the message" and "global village".

In this detailed overview of the history of the handmade book, Avrin looks at the development of scripts and styles of illumination, the making of manuscripts, and the technological processes involved in paper-making and book-binding.

This books aims to demonstrate how semiotic models of textual analysis can be used to study any social reality or cultural process.

This book is about the collaborative work by four artists associated with the FLUXUS and Nouveau Réalisme movements.

"Over the last ten years this book has become the definitive text in an emergent field: teachers, librarians, students, artists, and readers turn to the expertise contained on these pages every day.

"Artists Books: A Critical Survey of the Literature is the first and only published guide to writings on artists books.

With an essay by well-known decorative arts expert David Revere McFadden, this singular book reveals that, with ingenuity and craftsmanship, one of our most familiar implements can be transformed into unforgettable works of art.