The Collaborative Artist's Book: Evolving Ideas in Contemporary Poetry and Art (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781609388898)

The Collaborative Artist's Book offers a rare glimpse into collaborations between poets and painters from 1945 to the present, and highlights how the artist's book became a critical form for experimental American artists in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Alexandra Gold provides a broad overview of the artist's book form and the many ongoing debates and challenges, from the disciplinary to the institutional, that these forms continue to pose.

Gold presents five case studies and details not only how each individual collaboration came to be but how all five together engage and challenge conventional ideals about art, subjectivity, poetry, and interpersonal relations, as well as complex social questions related to gender and race. Taking several of these books out of special collections libraries and museum archives and making them available to a broad readership, Gold brings to light a whole genre that has been largely forgotten or neglected.


Author: Alexandra J. Gold
ISBN-10: 1609388895
ISBN-13: 9781609388898
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Language: English
Published: 06/08/2023
Pages: 258
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.90d