Research Guides: Poet's Guide to Library Resources: Artists' Books

Websites

Artist Books 3.0
The Artist Book 3.0 forum is for artists, curators, librarians, students, and researchers interested in artist books and the book arts.
Artists' Books Online
Artists' Books Online is designed to promote critical engagement with artists books and to provide access to a digital repository of metadata, scans, and commentary.
Centre for Fine Print Research: Book Arts
Includes resources such as exhibitions, websites, and essays.
Old Books into Art
Philobiblon
Reed Digital Collections
The spectrum of modern and contemporary Artists' Books in Reed College's Special Collections and collected on this website include traditional letterpress printed books of poetry, conceptual book works, sculptural and visual works, concrete poetry, and magazine works.
Smithsonian: What is an artists' book?

Book from the Ground by Xu Bing
Call Number: N7433.4 .X8 B66 2013
Codex Seraphinianus by Luigi Serafini
Call Number: NC257 .S47 S47 2013
Dog Ear by Erica Baum
Call Number: PS3602 .A945 D64 2011
Crossing the Boulevard by Warren Lehrer; Judith Sloan
Call Number: JV7050 .Q44 L45 2003

These are examples of what is available. To find more, search Concrete Poetry by keyword and by subject in the library catalog.

"Concrete poetry can be considered a more rigidly defined sub-genre of visual poetry." (From Poetry Beyond Text)

An Anthology of Concrete Poetry by Emmett Williams (Editor)
Call Number: PN6110 .C77 W5 2013
Green Revolver [ebook] by Worthy Evans

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell by William Blake; Michael Phillips (Editor)
Call Number: PR4144 .M3 2011
The Bodleian Library copy is one of the first that Blake printed using the method he called 'Illuminated Printing' and the only work in which he signifies its importance.This new edition includes a complete facsimile of the work, together with a transcript, and a plate-by-plate guide to text, the interlinear figures, and the larger designs, supplied in the commentary.

Henri Matisse - Drawing with Scissors by Olivier Berggruen (Editor); Max Hollein (Editor)
Call Number: N6853.M33 A422 2002
Samaras by Lucas Samaras
Call Number: TR654.S24 A3 1987
Robert Rauschenberg by Yve-Alain Boi
Call Number: N6537 .R27 A4 2007

Example of artists' books. To see more, search the catalog by SUBJECT, for one of the following terms: Conceptual art, Artists's Books

Book Arts Book Artists and Poets speak! In these interviews, host Steve Miller explores the lives of artists who work in books and handmade paper, as well as the internal working of some poets. In addition, podsafe music is often featured.