ART 368 - Image and Text:The Book as a Sculptural Object

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Reed College

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Full course for one semester. This course explores the significant role artists' books have played among the avant-garde of eastern and western Europe and the United States from the turn of the 20th century to the present. The structural format book works take and their social and political functions will be viewed, discussed, and fabricated. The course will cover binding both codex and accordion books, reproducing images using palmer plates, and setting and printing type and images using a Reprex letterpress. Reed's special collections will provide a spectrum of professional artists' books, including magazine works, anthologies, diaries, manifestos, visual poetry, word works, documentation, reproductions of sketchbooks, albums, comic books, paper art, and mail art. We will read and discuss essays relating to each studio problem. Prerequisites: Art 161 and one 200-level studio course or consent of the instructor. Studio-conference. Not offered 2009-1

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3.00

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Institution Website:

www.reed.edu

Phone Number:

(503) 771-1112

Regional Accreditation:

Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities

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Semester

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