42 Artists’ books Exhibition selections from the Bob Calle Prize

It may contain words but it is not literature. It may contain images but it is not a catalogue. It joins reading and looking. Often done in multiples but at times existing as one unique example, it is made up of a thousand pages or contains just one sheet of paper. It can be everything and the opposite of everything, slipping the bonds of any and all definition… The artist’s book is that fully fledged work of art that is designed by artists to assume the shape of a book. A cr…show more