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University of Texas Libraries presents Experiencing Artist's Books

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The Fine Arts Library contains over 200 artists’ books, exemplifying different binding techniques, materials, sculptural forms and conceptual approaches, with the library holding titles by such recognizable artists as Damien Hirst, Richard Prince, and Ed Ruscha. Some of the books in the collection push the boundaries of reading by engaging with other senses such as smell, touch and taste.

The Experiencing Artists’ Books event will present attendees an opportunity to smell, touch, taste and hear some of these unique volumes. This event is associated programming for the new Visual Arts Center exhibition "Fool’s Romance / Books from Aeromoto," curated by Allison Myers, Art History PhD candidate and 2016-2017 VAC Curatorial Fellow. Myers will lead a dialogue between local artists and bookmakers including Jason Urban, Artist and Studio Art Faculty, and Lindsay Starr from Cattywampus Press. After the dialogue, audience members will have the opportunity to engage with the unusual books in our collection.

 

The Fine Arts Library contains over 200 artists’ books, exemplifying different binding techniques, materials, sculptural forms and conceptual approaches, with the library holding titles by such recognizable artists as Damien Hirst, Richard Prince, and Ed Ruscha. Some of the books in the collection push the boundaries of reading by engaging with other senses such as smell, touch and taste.

The Experiencing Artists’ Books event will present attendees an opportunity to smell, touch, taste and hear some of these unique volumes. This event is associated programming for the new Visual Arts Center exhibition "Fool’s Romance / Books from Aeromoto," curated by Allison Myers, Art History PhD candidate and 2016-2017 VAC Curatorial Fellow. Myers will lead a dialogue between local artists and bookmakers including Jason Urban, Artist and Studio Art Faculty, and Lindsay Starr from Cattywampus Press. After the dialogue, audience members will have the opportunity to engage with the unusual books in our collection.

The Fine Arts Library contains over 200 artists’ books, exemplifying different binding techniques, materials, sculptural forms and conceptual approaches, with the library holding titles by such recognizable artists as Damien Hirst, Richard Prince, and Ed Ruscha. Some of the books in the collection push the boundaries of reading by engaging with other senses such as smell, touch and taste.

The Experiencing Artists’ Books event will present attendees an opportunity to smell, touch, taste and hear some of these unique volumes. This event is associated programming for the new Visual Arts Center exhibition "Fool’s Romance / Books from Aeromoto," curated by Allison Myers, Art History PhD candidate and 2016-2017 VAC Curatorial Fellow. Myers will lead a dialogue between local artists and bookmakers including Jason Urban, Artist and Studio Art Faculty, and Lindsay Starr from Cattywampus Press. After the dialogue, audience members will have the opportunity to engage with the unusual books in our collection.

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Fine Arts Library
510 E. 23rd St.
Austin, TX 78712
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/calendar/experiencing-artists-books

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Admission is free.
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