The guide to artists' books is designed to encourage you to explore the collection. Unlike most of Crossett's collections, the artists' books are not in the open shelves, so this guide is a way to digitally browse the collection by subject, structure, material, process, or publisher and then ask a librarian to look at the titles you are interested in seeing.
Search the library's resources using a single, comprehensive search box. This tool searches across our physical collections at Crossett and Jennings Music Libraries, as well as journals, articles, and other materials available through our databases. To narrow your results, you can use filters to limit by material type (e.g., ebooks or musical scores), language, date range, full-text and peer-reviewed items, and more.
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If you find a title in Worldcat that is not held by Bennington College, you can request it through Interlibrary Loan by clicking on the "Request Item" button. Your book will be shipped from the lending library to Crossett Library, and you will receive an e-mail when it is ready for pickup.
Interlibrary loan access is included in your library account, and can be accessed here.
A Century of Artists Books
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Published to accompany the 1994 exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, New York..
Hand, voice & vision : artists' books from Women's Studio Workshop
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Features artists’ books by thirty-six artists published over thirty years by Women’s Studio Workshop. Curated by Kathleen Walkup, Director of the Book Arts Program at Mills College, the exhibition is a comprehensive retrospective featuring some of the most influential contemporary book artists in America.
The Century of Artists' Books
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Topics include the discussion of the poetics of the book, the book as a metaphor, the conceptual space of the book, and books as narrative and non-narrative sequences.
Artists' Books in the Modern Era 1870-2000
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Six sections: the evolution of the modern book in the decades before and after 1900; the momentum of Modernism in the twenties; the key role of Picasso; the influences of Dada, Surrealism, the Second World War and its aftermath; the shift of cultural power to the United States; and the new trends of the contemporary era.