SHIRIN NESHAT -Rebellious Silence (1994)Black and white RC print and ink, 27.9 x 35.6 cm. Courtesy Gladstone Gallery, New York.The current issue of ArtAsiaPacific features an in depth look at artists who employ text in their work.Articles include:-A great piece on contemporary calligraphy in China, "Square Words, Round Paradigms" by Eric Wear.-A look at Yoko Ono's embrace of online communities (Ono averages 200 new 'friends' on MySpace a day) by HG Masters.-Gregory Galligan's looks at Islamic text-based art in his piece, "Architecture in Script: From Without Boundaries to Archive Fever," and includes Shirin Neshat whose iconic work appears above.Also in...
Bookplate For the TV Lover
God bless mytelevision set.Most fabulousof toys.But pity me-if I forgetBibliophilicjoys.Bookplate of Dorothy Wheelockfound in a third printing of Brighton by Osbert Sitwell and Margaret Barton published in London by Faber and Faber, 1938.
Tables of Contents
from Content, by Rem KoolhaasThe gang at Design Observer have started a Flickr set showcasing the Table of Contents page. The set is meant as a visual archive of TOC and as an accompaniment to their 2007 book The Next Page: Thirty Tables of Contents which was published to coincide with AIGA's Biennial National Design Conference in Denver, the theme of which was "Next.""Often overlooked by serious bibliophiles, the humble TOC is our portal into a world of knowledge. In the realm of the printed word, it heralds what comes next, a verbal proscenium with its own peculiar prose and...
Book Hybrid
"The Future of Books" by Kyle BeanThanks to if:book for the lead
Blood on Paper : Books in the Hand of Artists
"At a time when the notion of the book is challenged by the advent of the screen and computer, this exhibition aims to show the extraordinary ways in which the book has been treated by leading artists of today and the recent past. Blood on Paper will focus on new and contemporary work, and on books where the artist has been the driving force in conception and design." --from the Introduction to the exhibit.Most notable artists of the 20th and 21st century have used the book form as a vehicle. No matter what their primary artistic leaning (painting, sculpture, drawing,...