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February 3, 2010
Joan Lyons, ed. Artists’ Books: Visual Studies Workshop Press, 1971–2008 Rochester: Visual Studies Workshop Press, 2009. 176 pp.; 226 color ills. Paper $35.00 (9780898221268)
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Artists’ books are a strange genre in contemporary art, hovering between several different disciplines and having multiple histories. One of the persistent arguments in the field concerns the definition of an artist’s book. A reductive form of this argument might be: is it a craft practice or is it some kind of conceptual art form? Arguing definitions in the abstract is a fruitless and pointless activity, but examining the work of specific artists is rewarding...