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Real Fiction : An Inquiry into the Bookeresque
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Visual Studies Workshop Press Rochester, NY, 1987
ISBN 10: 0898220521
ISBN 13: 9780898220520
Used
Softcover
Seller: Specific Object / David Platzker, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
[unpaginated]; 19 x 13.5 cm.; sewn bound; black-and-white; edition size unknown; unsigned and unnumbered; offset-printed Artist's book collaboration between Telfer Stokes and Helen Douglas, confronts the very act of turning pages and reading text. The artists call attention to the three-dimensionality of the book as an object by making photographs of turning pages into the pages themselves. As the book progresses, a room is revealed between the pages, which in turn opens up to a landscape. Text is interspersed throughout the book, taking the form of a commentary both on the act of reading and on the images presented on the pages. The book creates a space that can literally be inhabited, in addition to a space that is figuratively inhabited by ideas. At the heart of this artists' book is the desire to remind the reader that reading is an engaged act. Reference : "Esthétique du Livre d'Artiste 1960 / 1980" by Anne Moeglin-Delcroix. Paris, France : Jean-Michel Place / Bibliothèque Nationale de France, 1997, pp. 334. Very Good. Light edge-wear including rubbing and bumping of bottom edge of recto. Contents clean and unmarked. Seller Inventory # 36823