Swedish Artist Books: Exploring Danish and GDR Contributions | Unique Art Collections for Home Decor & Gifts

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Thomas Millroth450

The Social RoomThe BodyBerlinThe WorkshopThe LibraryArchive

codex

This book presents around 450 different book artists. Mainly from Sweden, many though internationally active, but also quite a few from Denmark and Germany.

The only way to really see the Swedish scene must include neighbouring artists, because artists’ books is a genre that know no limits – whether national or artistical.

This is indeed the first survey of artists’ books from a Swedish point of view. Each chapter is an essay, a way to see and understand artists’ books from different views – like The Social Room, The Body, Berlin, The Workshop, The Library and Archive, etc.

Each chapter has a story of its own.
English and Swedish text.

It is a story about codex, the book, bringing the experiences of the old printing offices into contemporary art life.