Feminist Image Group (FIG) Artist Book Exhibition

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“Everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book.” - Stéphane Mallarmé

During the past 30 years artists have increasingly turned toward the form of the book as a means of presenting ideas that extend beyond traditional approaches of painting, photography, printmaking and sculpture. Feminist Image Group (F.I.G.) has been invited to create and display handcrafted or altered books as art objects in the Dickenson Popular Library space on the main floor.

If I call it a book, does that mean it is a book? What makes it a book―in this case, an artist’s book? Does it need to have pages in order for it to be a book? And, if it requires pages, what, exactly, counts as a “page?” Is a page a piece of paper or cardstock with writing and/or images? What if it is folded or manipulated in some way? Can it be a piece of glass? A board? A box? Some other found object? Also, to be a book, must it have text? Does it need to contain images? Must there be a narrative?

Some have defined an artist’s book as a book that is a work of art, or art in the form of a book. But that begs the “what counts as a book” question. Others define it in terms of the artist’s intention. If the artist calls it an artist’s book, it is. The event will be held in the Art Gallery's Valerias Sculptural Garden on the 9th floor. The exhibition is onview in the Dickinson Popular Library.

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