Interested in learning more about books as works of art? Find a list of further reading and other resources below.
Further Reading
Works and movements featured on this website
Artists’ Books
- Les mots en liberté futuristes F.T. Marinetti
- Klänge Wassily Kandinsky (MoMA)
- Klänge (essay, Tate Britain)
- Calligrammes Guillaume Apollinaire, illustrations Giorgio de Chirico
- Une semaine de bonté Max Ernst
- Dlia Golosa (For the Voice) Vladimir Mayakovsky and El Lissitzky; Translation; Mayakovsky reading (audio);
- Le chant des morts (The Song of the Dead) Pierre Reverdy and Pablo Picasso; Translation by Dan Bellm
- Departure of the Argonaut Savinio and Clemente
- Daily Mirror Book Dieter Roth
Futurism
- The Futurist Moment (University of Chicago, 1987), by Marjorie Perloff
- Italian Futurism 1909–1944 (website) Metropolitan Museum of Art
- The Russian Avant-Garde Book 1910–1934 (Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2002), website and catalogue
- The Collaborative, Interactive Book Art of the Russian Futurists (Getty blog), by Annelisa Stephan and Sarah Waldorf
- Explodity: Sound, Image, and Word in Russian Futurist Book Art (Getty Research Institute, 2016), by Nancy Perloff
Surrealism
- Manifestoes of Surrealism (University of Michigan, 1969), André Breton
- Surrealism and the Book (University of California, 1988), by Renée Riese Hubert
- Surrealism (Phaidon, revised edition 2010), ed. Mary Ann Caws
Historic and contemporary artists’ books
- Artists’ Books in the Modern Era 1870–2000 (Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 2001) Exhibition catalogue: highlights of the Reva and David Logan Collection of Illustrated Books
- The Century of Artists’ Books (Granary Books, 2nd revised edition, 2004), by Johanna Drucker An authoritative overview of the art form
- A Book of the Book (Granary Books, 2000), ed. Jerome Rothenberg and Steven Clay An essential anthology of writings on the nature of the book as a visual/literary medium
- A Century of Artists’ Books (Museum of Modern Art, 1994), by Riva Castleman A guide to twentieth century livres d’artistes
- Splendid Pages (Hudson Hills, 2003) The Bareis Collection of Modern Illustrated Books, Toledo Museum of Art
- Breaking the Rules: The Printed Face of the European Avant Garde 1900–1937 (The British Library, 2007), by Stephen Bury
Other resources online
- Brief History of Artists’ Books (Yale)
- Wikipedia: Artist’s book
- JAB: Journal of Artists’ Books
- Artists’ Books Online: books, facsimiles, metadata, criticism
- Book Arts Web: Development of the Artist’s Book
- Letterform Archive