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The Artist's Book as an Alternative to the Gallery Installation

Description: I examined and evaluated three sets of gallery installations and related handmade books. The following questions were considered foremost: 1) Visually, how different from and how similar to the gallery installations are the books? 2) What verbal elements are adapted from the installations to the books? 3) How does the difference in format (that is, the books) alter or affect the content and meaning of the installations?
Date: May 1981
Creator: Bush, M. Rowena
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Artists' Books: An Investigation Into Another Genre of Artistic Expression

Description: For centuries, books have been a traditional way to display prints. Contemporary artists' books have become more than simply a method of displaying prints and have, in fact, become a relevant medium for artistic expression. It has been important to my work that each of my artist's books have functioned as a unified whole, all parts of complementing each other and strengthening the overall concept.
Date: August 1995
Creator: Zipfel, Karen K.
Partner: UNT Libraries
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The Sculptural Book: An Exploration of Form in Conjunction With the Elements of Design

Description: My premise was the marriage of two forms, book and sculpture. My goal was to determine if these two unique types of work could be joined as one. In each oth the proposed works, I focused on an element of design as well as the challenges present when works are produced for a particular space (the Cora Stafford Gallery).
Date: May 1999
Creator: Herbst, Alicia
Partner: UNT Libraries
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