Re: [-empyre-] coretext

["Millie Niss on eathlink" <men2@columbia.edu>]

About artist's books:

Do people make multiple copies by hand?  That's my sense of the traditional
artists's book-- something handmade by the artist in a small edition. What
I'm curious about, is whether computer produced artists' books are accepted
as artist's books...  In some ways, people might think that using a computer
is cheating, as the artwork in the book is mechanically reproduced, but
usually the book itself is hand made, in terms of cutting and folding and so
forth.

I took an artist's book printing class, and my idea for a book (which I had
made a model of by hand without eqiupment) turned out to be very expensive
to produce using letterpress printing, because the pages weren't
rectangular, and I would have had to have a die made to cut the pages into
the right shape.

Millie
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From: "arteonline" <arteonline@arteonline.arq.br>
To: "soft_skinned_space" <empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au>
Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 6:47 AM
Subject: Re: [-empyre-] coretext


> Another kind of get a book printed is to do it yourself. It is the
> cultivation of experimentation, the basis of neoconcrete moviment. In this
> case I am speaking about artist's books. Here in Brazil we have a
tradition
> of creating artist's book.  My own work is just this. At first I built my
> books of paper or other materials, nowadays I build it to web, so I am
> creating eletronic artist's books  . However some of my books have the two
> versions: web and print (http://arteonline.arq.br/virtualidade , pop up
> windows available).  If you want to know more about artists's books,
browser
> at: http://arteonline.arq.br/museu/interviews/reginavaterenglish.htm .
>