museum of contemporary craft

object focus: the book

Link: object focus: the book guidebook (download PDF)

Link to exhibition: object focus: the book (exhibition)

November 18, 2010 – February 26, 2011

Curated by: Geraldine Ondrizek, Reed College and Namita Gupta Wiggers, Museum of Contemporary Craft; in collaboration with Barbara Tetenbaum, Oregon College of Art and Craft

The artist’s book is an object that extends work beyond the boundaries of a gallery setting. Through selections from the significant 20th century modern and contemporary artists’ books in Reed College’s Special Collections, this exhibition explores the book as an object which defies the boundaries between art, craft and design, and moves along a spectrum from a recognizable to a deconstructed form.

Object Focus: The Book was curated by Geraldine Ondrizek, Professor of Art, Reed College and Namita Gupta Wiggers, Curator, Museum of Contemporary Craft in collaboration with Barbara Tetenbaum, Head of Book Arts, Oregon College of Art and Craft. Reed College’s Artists’ Books Collection has been made possible by a generous grant from John and Betty Gray and Sue and Ed Cooley to support the Art Department, Reed College.

A guidebook to Object Focus: The Book is available for download below. To bind your downloaded guidebook, please consider visiting local independent resources such as Publication Studio, Independent Resource Publishing Center, Container Corps or Em Space Book Arts Center in Portland, Oregon.