Book Binding Elective

In this first session we explored different artists that use book binding in their pieces. We also made a pamphlet book.

History of book binding in art...
Since the creation of paper artists made books, including monks hand painted illustrations.
William Blake, early pioneer 1789.
William Morris, set up Kelmscott Press 1896.
Book binding one of the earliest forms of collaboration in art.
Pierre Bonnard Lithograph 1900, a form of owning a painting and poem at the same time.
Dieter Roth, series of diaries 1967.
Ed Ruscha, pioneer of American Art Book Movement 1962-78.
Laura Oldfield, 'Savage Messiah' 2006, borrows form from press/political pamphlet.
Richard Tuttle, series of compositions and colours.
Lawrence Weiner 

Below is the pamphlet book we made in this session, you can see the fold of the cover, which helps to hide the spine of the book, as well as the middle page of the pamphlet where the stitching can be seen. For next session we have to create another pamphlet book, this time also including an end paper, and fill the book with a taxonomy similar to the work of Lawrence Weiner.