This is an Artists’ Book
An Artists’ Book is a work of art. It is not just a vehicle to contain a story and communicate non-visual ideas.
Different media are used in a unique way to create a book-like object.
These books are puzzles.
They are undefined.
The viewer and the artist make up their own story using clues from the book-like structure.
Text, image and structure are equally important in an Artists’ Book.
In The Bay Bridge my cover and spine is the steel box. The pages can be taken out of the box and looked at indvidually.
For a few years we lived in an apartment looking right out at the Oakland- San Francisco Bay Bridge. In a drawer near the window I kept a supply of the same size ’pages’ for my Artists’ Book. I’d record what was going on outside my window. What happens is you have the same size paper for each drawing and painting so you start to think of different ways to fill that piece of paper. The book is chuck full now. Included in the steel box are stories about connections I have had with the bridge.
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Tags: Artist Book, drawings, graphite drawing, Oakland - San Francisco Bay Bridge, Painting, pen and ink, Steel, watercolor
January 25, 2012 at 7:45 pm |
Very cool, thanks for sharing.
January 26, 2012 at 3:11 am |
Thanks. You Saw some photographs I took of the bridge
Humm there is an idea for a blog post. Thanks !
January 26, 2012 at 3:38 am |
As I mentioned before, I love your artists’ books. I think it’s amazing what you do with them every time!
January 26, 2012 at 9:00 am |
Marina why don’t you add some text to your wax objects and you will have a unique Artist Book. By the way there seems to be different ways to spell it if you look it up artists’ book, artist’s book , artist book. Let me know when you have done one
January 26, 2012 at 9:10 am |
What a nice idea, thank you Carla! Oh, about the spelling …well, the “heart” of it is right there, so apostrophe or not doesn’t change much!
January 31, 2012 at 2:38 am |
Wonderful Carla – i love this post and such beautiful drawings!
January 31, 2012 at 6:01 am |
We have a mutual admiration thing going. I love your posts! Your posts make me think.
February 5, 2012 at 7:49 am |
The steel box has stories involving me and my family on the bridge but were personal. One story is when in graduate school my boyfriend and I were taking a huge canvas (I don’t remember if it was his painting or mine)tied to the top of his vw bug. The wind caught the canvas and slammed it against the side posts of the bridge.We stopped the traffic on that one