Title: Talking the Boundless Book
Subtitle: Art, Language & the Book Arts
Editor: Charles Alexander
Authors: Dick Higgings, Steven Clay, Johanna Drucker, Chales Bernstein, Amos Paul Kennedy Jr., Susan Bee, Toshi Ishihara & Linda Reinfeld, Katherine Kuehn, Jo Anne Paschall, Colette Gaiter, Alison Knowles, Byron Clercx, Brad Freeman, Karen Wirth
Publisher: Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis
ISBN: 978-1-8798-3209-1
“Like notions of self, author, and reader, book is not a word which lends itself to easy definition. The book arts, perhaps, are specifically arguments against definition and limitation, as artists and writers strive to break the bindings of what has traditionally been considered as book. Such work has taken place in an area, which has not yet cast a discerning eye on itself; a fledgling field, this book arts place, albeit one which involves traditions going back to some of the first activities of humankind, keeping records by making marks on stones, clay, and other surfaces. Book arts works today are made by visual artists, writers, publishers, and others; they are collected by libraries and museums, displayed by museums and galleries; they are taught in colleges and universities as well as in community education programs.”