Beyond the Text

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LOCATION AND TIMES:
September 12-December 12, 2011
Mon 10am-7pm; Tues-Fri 10am-5pm
Public Exhibition Opening: Monday, September 12, 5-7pm
at The Book Club of California
312 Sutter Street, Suite 500
San Francisco, CA, 94108
The exhibition is FREE of charge and open to the public.
To learn more about The Book Club, please visit http://www.bccbooks.org

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION:
Artists’ books exist in accordion, codex, scroll, pop-up, and tunnel form. They come in a variety of mixed media; they may employ previously known texts, new texts, or no text at all; they may be totally new creations in the material sense or altered objects; the subject matter may be political, argumentative, or humorous, and is ultimately infinite.

The books in this exhibition have been selected from more than 60 artists’ books recently shown at the Grolier Club, New York, from the private collection of Robert J. Ruben. They represent a broad range of conceptual content and physical form, created by artists from across international boundaries: Italian Bruno Munari; Swiss Warja Honnegger-Lavater, whose work in the artists’ book medium predated Ed Ruscha’s in the 1960s; and California-based Julie Chen, Dianne Weiss, and Carolee Campbell; among others.

Many of the works tackle difficult themes, from AIDS, in Karen Chance’s iconic Parallax, to brain trauma, in Scott McCarney’s Memory Loss. Others, such as Ronald King’s Turn Over Darling, and Antonio Frasconi’s A Literary Bestiary, are more playful in content.

All of the books exhibited display craftsmanship and artistry that heighten alertness, challenge aesthetic and political awareness, and lead us to a deeper understanding of the full range of human experience. The exhibit has been curated specially for The Book Club of California by Kathy Walkup, Professor and Head of the Book Arts Program at Mills College.

The Book Club of California is a non-profit membership organization founded in 1912. It supports the art of fine printing related to California and the Western States of America through publications, exhibitions, and public programs.

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