Book object
A book object is anything that looks like a book, but is not a book, but rather represents an alienation of it.
history
The art-historical preliminary stages of newer object book production can be found in Art Nouveau and in the twenties, for example among the Russian Constructivists and Dadaists. Among the Parisian surrealists one comes across incunabula that were of particular importance for the development of the book object. In 1934 the French bookbinder Georges Hugnet provided his book Onan with a cover , which consisted of several panes of glass and differently colored sand. At Marcel Duchamp's Marchand du Sel , the book covers by Georges Leroux were processed as an assembly of clock springs and gears. For the manuscript of André Bretons and Philippe Soupault's Les champs magnétiques , a book case was carved out of wood in 1919 - "The depiction of a skull, which grimacing monsters and birds of hell skin ..."
Book objects in art
Book objects represent certain forms of the artist's book, which indeed have the essential characteristics of a book , but whose cover and / or book block were designed more or less differently from normal books by virtue of artistic imagination , mostly using foreign materials. Artistically designed book objects, for example, also change the classic codex form, consisting of pages between covers, and reduce them in part to the origin of a collection of texts or ideas. Such book objects are often unique or handcrafted in very small numbers by an artist. They are often collected by enthusiasts and museums ( bibliophilia ), but less often by libraries .
A scenery book is a book that gives the impression of a stage when opened.
Book objects as everyday objects
As early as the 17th century, for example , there were night chairs that looked like a stack of tomes or Bibles in which liquor bottles could be hidden. Today, objects that adorn the shape of the book can be made out in various areas of everyday life, such as lighters , ashtrays , tape recorders , spice containers and the like. Also for example, socks , wedding rings , pizza , chocolates or perfume in packages that look like a book.
literature
- Gabriele Grünebaum: Books that aren't. Art and kitsch in book form . Exhibition catalog. Zons 1988
- The book. Artist objects . Institute for Foreign Relations, Stuttgart 1989.
- Book art. Book objects by European artists . Frauen-Museum , Bonn 1993, ISBN 3-928239-28-7 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ The book. Artist objects , Stuttgart 1989, Institute for Foreign Relations, p. 8