Book + Art: Handcrafting Artists' Books
Dorothy Simpson Krause, "Book + Art: Handcrafting Artists' Books"
ISBN: 1600611540 | 2009 | EPUB/MOBI | 144 pages | 12 MB/16 MB
Discover what happens when you add artmaking and bookbinding together. With Book + Art, explore the basics of surfaces, images and words in order to create provocative works of art with layers of meaning. Whether you're altering a pre-made book or creating your own, here you'll find both the instruction and the inspiration to get it done. In addition to learning mixed-media techniques - such as how to age paper, transfer images and make your own monoprints - you'll be given step-by-step instruction for numerous book structures including:
• Single-fold and bi-fold books
• Simple and extended accordions
• Perfect bindings
• Side-sewn books
• Single- and multiple-signature books
• Boxes
• Unbound collections
Add the art of the book and the book as art to your own artmaking repertoire today and start making your own meaningful artists' books.