Title: The thing the book :
Authors: Herschend, Jonn,; Rogan, Will,
Date: 2014
Publisher: Chronicle Books,
Physical description: 155 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
Language: English
LC class: Z
Abstract: What exactly is a book? This wildly inventive and thought-provoking volume asks that question of more than 30 of today's top creative visionaries, from Ed Ruscha to Miranda July, John Baldessari to Jonathan Lethem. Each traditional element of a book--from endpapers to footnotes--is assigned to a different artist or writer invited to use the space as a creative playground. The result is a collaborative group art project like no other. A ribbon bookmark by David Shrigley, page numbers by Tauba Auerbach, endnotes by Rick Moody--each contribution surprising and brilliant. This one-of-a-kind book will entrance anyone who appreciates art, literature, and the surprising possibilities that emerge when the two collide.
Contents: Endpapers / Leslie Shows -- Bookplate : "ex libris" / Ed Ruscha -- Bookmarks / Savid Shrigley -- Epigraph / John Baldessari -- A table of contents to a book other than the one you are holding in your hands / Anthony Discenza -- Folios / Tauba Auerbach -- Footnotes¹ / Jonathan Lethem -- Introduction / Jonn Herschend & Will Rogan -- Essay : "The artist as a bookmaker" / Gwen Allen -- Essay : "Society of things" / Lucy Pullen -- Flip books : "Dancers" / Dave Muller -- Photography : "Roman women" / Sara VanDerBeek -- Essay : "My friends" / Harrell Fletcher -- Essay : "Work no. 470: if you're lonely, 2005" / Martin Creed -- Note : "A note to my students" / Andrew Leland -- Erratum / Miranda July -- "The hearing trumpet : a character list" / Anne Walsh -- Photography and sculptures / Richard Wentworth -- (Detail from): "Investigation #81 -- The goulash trigonometry of fate" / Ryan Gander -- Illustration : "Bookshelf" / Tucker Nichols -- Bibliography : "Difficult times: every book about spirituality I own" / Mike Mills -- Calligraphy : "I don't speak Japanese" / Kota Ezawa -- Essay : "A postcard from Lascaux" / Trevor Paglen -- Centerfolds: "Contemporary readers" / Laurel Nakadate -- Thumb tab / Lawrence Weiner -- Paintings : "Poem paintings" / Chris Johanson -- Photography : "Cover life" / Mark Dion -- Drawings : "Indices" / Molly Springfield -- Endnotes / Rick Moody -- "Questions for a reading group" / Starlee Kine -- Index / Matthew Higgs -- Colophon : "Zachary Z" / Sam Green.
Notes: Includes index.