About the Guide
The Artists' Books collection uses an internal list of controlled vocabulary adapted from the ARLIS/NA Artists' Books Thesaurus (ABT), the University of Utah's Opening Artists' Books (OAB), the University of Iowa Center for the Book's Book Arts Research Database (BARD), as well as the Getty Research Institute's Art & Architecture Thesaurus (ATT). We describe our artists' books using the following categories:
- Structure (the physical format; e.g. accordion)
- Material (the materials used in the construction; e.g. book board)
- Technique (the techniques and processes used in the book's creation; e.g. letterpress print)
- Subject (what the book is about; e.g. travel)
- Genre (literary traditions and how the text - if present - is used; e.g. erasure)
Citing an Artist's Book
To cite a book from this collection, follow the style guidelines as provided by MLA, APA, etc. For example, in MLA style, you would write the citation of a book as:
Hachenski, Dawn. The Prairies. Rosendale, NY: Women's Studio Workshop, 2007. Print.
To cite an image from the Artists' Book Index, follow the style guidelines as provided by MLA, APA, etc. and include its Reference URL (found by following the link in the header above the digital file). For example, in MLA style, you would write a citation of an image as:
Hachenski, Dawn. The Prairies. 2007. Margaret M. Bridwell Art Library, Louisville. Margaret M. Bridwell Art Library Artists' Books Index Online. Web. 26 July 2016. <https://digital.library.louisville.edu/concern/arts/ulal_abi_hachenski_01?locale=en>.
Books About Artists' Books
Selected books about artists' books from the Art Library's collection.
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Artists Books: A Critical Survey of the Literature
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Call Number: N 7433.3 .K64 1998ISBN: 9781887123181Publication Date: 1998-05-02Artwork by Stefan Klima. -
The Century of Artists' Books
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Call Number: N 7433.3 .D77 1995ISBN: 9781887123013Publication Date: 1995-07-02By Johanna Drucker. -
The Cutting Edge of Reading: Artists' Books
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Call Number: N 7433.3 .H83 1999ISBN: 9781887123211Publication Date: 1999-04-02Calling themselves critics rather than art historians, the Huberts evince an astonishingly vast familiarity with the medium of artists' books, which they survey in the present volume. The works are discussed in groups according to theme and/or format and include works by an international group of ar -
The Book As Art: Artists' Books from the National Museum of Women in the Arts
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Call Number: N7433.35.U6 W37 2007ISBN: 9781568986098Publication Date: 2006-10-12Artists' books have emerged over the last 25 years as the quintessential contemporary art form, addressing subjects as diverse as poetry and politics, incorporating a full spectrum of artistic media and bookmaking methods, and taking every conceivable form. Female painters, sculptors, calligraphers, and printmakers, as well a growing community of hobbyists, have played a primary role in developing this new mode of artistic expression.The Book as Art presents more than 100 of the most engaging women's artist books created by major fine artists such as Meret Oppenheim, May Stevens, Kara Walker, and Renee Stout and distinguished book artists such as Susan King, Ruth Laxson, Claire Van Vliet, and Julie Chen. Culled from over 800 unique or limited-edition volumes held by the National Museum of Women in the Arts, these books explore the form as a container for ideas. Descriptions of the works are accompanied by colorful illustrations and reflections by their makers, along with essays by leading scholars and a lively introduction by the most famous book artist in our culture, best-selling author Audrey Niffenegger. The exquisitely crafted objects in theThe Book as Art are sure to provoke unexpected and surprising conclusions about what constitutes a book. The Book as Art accompanies the exhibition of the same name at the Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C., beginning in October 2006. -
1,000 Artists' Books
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Call Number: N7433.3 .S35 2012ISBN: 9781592537747Publication Date: 2012-06-01The book is a timeless art form, one that is as alive today as ever before, and artists continue to explore and explode the boundaries of what a book is and can be. In this beautiful collection, you will experience close-up various aspects of hand-crafted books: covers, bindings, scrolls, folded and origami structures and books made from found objects. You will find richly illustrated and calligraphed pages as well as books created from a variety of printed processes. Ingenuity and creativity abounds in this carefully curated collection of both historically important and modern works.
