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Books by Dieter Roth and publications of his publishing-house are exhibited. .Books by Dieter Roth and publications of his publishing-house are exhibited. .. They seem objective, empirical, and desirable, but end up being arbitrary markers of distinction among otherwise common objects. . This work situates artists' books within the context of mainstream developments in the visuals arts from Russian Futurism and Surrealism to Fluxus, Conceptual Art, to Postmodernism. Designed to raise critical and theoretical issues as well as provide a historical overview, this book explores more than two hundred individual books in realtion to their structure, form, and conceptualization. Topics include the discussion of the poetics of the books, the book as metaphor, the conceptual space of the book, and books as narrative and non-narrative sequences.

with notes ; with fourteen illustrations from drawings by Gilbert James. Merwin from an anonymous French play of the XIV century ; with wood-engravings by Roxanne Sexauer. Incunabula typographica; a descriptive catalogue of the books printed in the fifteenth century (1460-1500) in the library of Henry Walters. ..

MMU Library - Special collections Text only Manchester Metropolitan University Library MMU . The faculty of Art and Design was founded in 1838 and the art Library dates from 1845. It has an outstanding collection of books of nineteenth and twentieth century art publishing. The Library's main printed book special collection is the Book Design Collection, a collection of some 10, 000 British private press and commercial publications including an extensive collection of twentieth century Artists' Books. This has been enhanced by the more recent acquisition of the archives of artists such as John Farleigh, Barnett Freedman and Paul Hogarth, and extensive collections of Victorian ephemera.

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