The Thing The Book: A Monument to the Book as Object

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$50.08 - $62.64
UPC:
9781452117201
Maximum Purchase:
2 units
Binding:
Hardcover
Publication Date:
9/23/2014
Release Date:
9/23/2014
Author:
Jonn Herschend;Will Rogan
Language:
english

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Product Overview

What exactly is a book? This wildly inventive and thought-provoking volume asks that question of more than 30 of today's top creative visionaries, from Ed Ruscha to Miranda July, John Baldessari to Jonathan Lethem. Each traditional element of a bookfrom endpapers to footnotesis assigned to a different artist or writer invited to use the space as a creative playground. The result is a collaborative group art project like no other. A ribbon bookmark by David Shrigley, page numbers by Tauba Auerbach, endnotes by Rick Moodyeach contribution surprising and brilliant. This one-of-a-kind book will entrance anyone who appreciates art, literature, and the surprising possibilities that emerge when the two collide.

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