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The century of artists' books by Johanna Drucker( Book )
3 editions published between 1995 and 2004 in English and held by 703 libraries worldwide
The Century of Artists' Books is the first full-length study of the development of artists' books as a twentieth century art-form. This work situates artists' books within the context of mainstream developments in the visual arts from Russian Futurism and Surrealism to Fluxus, Conceptual Art, to Postmodernism. Designed to raise critical and theoretical issues as well as provide a historical overview, this book explores more than two hundred individual books in relation.

Infanta by Erin Belieu( Book )
1 edition published in 1995 in English and held by 445 libraries worldwide
A collection of "urban-chic" poems. In Rondeau at the Train Stop, which is set in Boston, she writes: "It bothers me: the genital smell of the bay / drifting toward me on the T stop, the train / circling the city like a dingy, year-round / Christmas display. The Puritans were right, / sin's / everywhere in Massachusetts."

A book of the book : some works & projections about the book & writing( Book )
2 editions published in 2000 in English and held by 433 libraries worldwide

No longer innocent : book art in America, 1960-1980 by Betty Bright( Book )
1 edition published in 2005 in English and held by 345 libraries worldwide

Joe Brainard : a retrospective by Constance Lewallen( Book )
1 edition published in 2001 in English and held by 330 libraries worldwide

The cutting edge of reading : artists' books by Renée Riese Hubert( Book )
1 edition published in 1999 in English and held by 327 libraries worldwide

Figuring the word : essays on books, writing, and visual poetics by Johanna Drucker( Book )
1 edition published in 1998 in English and held by 314 libraries worldwide
"Collects diverse writings by Johanna Drucker previously published in literary or scholarly journals ... also includes an anecdotal checklist of Drucker's artist's books"--Back cover.

A border comedy by Lyn Hejinian( Book )
1 edition published in 2001 in English and held by 313 libraries worldwide

Artists books : a critical survey of the literature by Stefan Klima( Book )
1 edition published in 1998 in English and held by 310 libraries worldwide

A secret location on the Lower East Side : adventures in writing, 1960-1980 : a sourcebook of information by Steven Clay( Book )
2 editions published in 1998 in English and held by 292 libraries worldwide