If you’re heading to Boston before May 31st, check out this exhibit The Book as Art: Artists’ Books from the National Museum of Women in the Arts.
From Boston.com:
“The exhibit by national and international artists highlights examples of this unique craft in which artists play with the relationship between text and image. In other words, they make cool art projects and insert them in books. The themes include “Storytellers,” “Nature,” “Autobiographies,” “Historians,” “Mothers, Daughters, and Wives,” and “Inspired by the Muses.” The last one features books with shadow puppets and music recordings.
According to the NMWA website: “The aim of book art is to involve the reader actively in the viewing process, not only to see the words on the page but also to think about how the words, pictures, and physical form of the object all contribute to the meaning.”
Allison Cooke Brown, Teatimes, 2005
It’s free. Currently on display at the McMullen Museum of Art at Boston College, Devlin Hall, 140 Commonwealth Ave., Chestnut Hill. 617-552-8587.
Katherine A. Glover, Green Salad, 2001
