The Avant-Garde Artist Book

What is an artists’s book? Most scholars today would agree that it is a genre that fuses word and image, and that its verbal and visual components, whether the product of collaboration or the work of a single artist, must have a significant relationship to one another. Then, too, unlike the traditional illustrated book, the artists’s book is always […]

Collage and Poetry

for Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, ed. Michael Kelly, 4 vols. (New York: Oxford U Press, 1998), Vol 1, 384-87; Stein, Vol. 4, 306-10.

The word collage comes from the French verb coller and refers literally to “pasting, sticking, or gluing,” as in the […]