Scope and Contents This catalogue is described on the back cover as follows: "Artists' books have emerged over the last twenty-five years as one of the most engaging contemporary art forms, addressing subjects from poetry to politics, incorporating a full spectrum of artistic media and bookmaking methods, and taking every conceivable form. Female painters, sculptors, calligraphers, and printmakers have played a primary role in developing this new mode of artistic expression. The Book as Art presents more than one hundred of the finest artists' books culled from the collection of the National Museum of Women in the Arts. These exquisitely crafted objects are certain to provoke unexpected and surprising conclusions about what constitutes a book." In her essay, "The Brightest Heaven of Invention" curator Krystyna Wasserman writes, "Among private collections, The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Achives of Concrete and Visual Poetry in Miami, Florida, has been a source of continual revelation and several...

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Krystyna Wasserman writes in her essay "The Brightest Heaven of Invention" that "Among private collections, the Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry in Miami, Florida has been a source of continual revelation and several acquisitions, including "Unfinished Sympony" by Elena Presser." Many book artists included in this book are also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This exhibition featured Bentivoglio's stone book objects. It also included collages, prints, and poem objects. A portfolio, "Monument" and a poem object, Pagina/finestra, that are also held by the Sackner Archive were depicted in this catalogue. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.