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Artists' Books Reading List The page for artists' books at the Virginia and Albert Museum. Searchable collection, interviews, links and reading list.

This is about the program at the Iowa Center for the Book, one of the best graduate book arts programs in the country. Tim Barrett, the papermaker, won a MacArthur Fellowship a few years ago.

A celebratory discussion from the American Antiquarian Society to mark the completion of the series, from "The Colonial Book in the Atlantic World" to "Print Culture in Postwar America", published in collaboration with the University of North Carolina Press and with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Center for the Book at the Library of Congress.Through these publications and the AAS Program in the History of the Book, the Society is acknowledged as a leader in the emerging international field of book history. The United States series- from Codex to the Kindle- is a lively consideration of authorship, reading, and publishing in the development of American life and culture. Looks like a very informative youtube video!

Victoria and Albert Museum site that lists a good bibliography to consult about artists books.

Kinetic Typography

Here is another kinetic one: http://www.arras.net/RNG/flash/dreamlife/dreamlife_index.html. This is fabulous; be sure to click "Run poem"; you can interact with this site a lot.

Interviews with some book artists

Look and sound familiar?

I had NO idea that Worcester had posted this. It's a cautionary tale: make sure you get permission to post someone else's work on the web...