BOOK ART OBJECT 2: SECOND CATALOGUE OF THE CODEX FOUNDATION BIENNIAL INTERNATIONAL BOOK EXHIBITION AND SYMPOSIUM
Published by CODEX Foundation, (Berkeley, CA, 2013
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4to. cloth, dust jacket, decorated endpapers. 521, (3) pages. First edition. Fine in fine jacket. Proceedings of the Codex Foundation's biennial exhibition and symposium, "The Fate of the Art," 2011, which showcased contemporary artist books, fine press, and fine art editions. Table of contents, foreword by Jury, list of supporters, introduction by Koch, Includes speakers, exhibitors, dispatches, studios and workshops, endmatter, acknowledgments, index. Over 1,100 color illustrations of 300 books by 140 artists/printers Also contains a selection of papers from the symposiums in 2009 and 2011. They are: Paul van Capelleveen, The National Library of the Netherlands: "Changing books: art and the contemporary Dutch private press book" Antoine Coron, Head of Special Collections, Bibliothèque Nationale de France: "Publishing artist books in France today" David Jury, designer and printer: "The depiction of books in books" Ron King, artist: "History and Collaboration: Circle Press" Peter Rutledge Koch, Printer: "The third stream: A view from the West back to the East" Juan Pascoe, Proprietor, Taller Martín Pescador, Michoacán: "Presses in Mexico" Richard Ovenden, keeper of Special Collections and Associate Director, Bodleian Library, Oxford: "The role of the book arts in a 21st-century research library" This volume is a great companion to the first volume and a must for any artist book collector. David Jury is Head of Graphic Media at the Colchester Institute, School of Art and Design, UK. His numerous books include About Face: Reviving the Rules of Typography; Letterpress: The Allure of the Handmade; What is Typography?; and New Typographic Design. From 1996 to 2006 he was the editor of TypoGraphic (journal of the International Society of Typographic Designers). Jury designs and publishes limited edition letterpress printed books for his own Fox Ash Press. The Codex Foundation was established in 2005 by Berkeley-based artist/printer/publisher Peter Rutledge Koch and other fine book printers, curators, and aficionados. It was founded to promote knowledge and appreciation of the book arts, and to organize a biennial international book fair and symposium in the San Francisco Bay Area. The non-profit Codex Foundation exists to preserve and promote the art and craft of the book. The mission is educational and, in the broadest possible context, to bring to public recognition the artisanship and the rich history of the civilizations of the book. cloth, dust jacket, decorated endpapers.…
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- BOOK ART OBJECT 2: SECOND CATALOGUE OF THE CODEX FOUNDATION BIENNIAL INTERNATIONAL BOOK EXHIBITION AND SYMPOSIUM
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- Jury, David and Peter Rutledge Koch
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- CODEX Foundation, (Berkeley, CA
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- 2013
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- Hardcover
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- 1st Edition
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