Explore Artists' Books by Genre or Form
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On each page you'll see a selection of aritsts' books from our collection in that form or genre.
Accordion Books
Folded books comprising a series of accordion or concertina style pleats and attached at one or both ends to stiff covers. Also known as leporello books.
Alphabet Books
Books designed to display the letters of the alphabet, often with accompanying illustrations; may be used to teach the alphabet or as vehicles for an illustrator's art.
Altered Books
The process of creating a new, original work by altering an already existing book.
Board Books
Books with stiff board or plastic pages. Frequently associated with books for children that are designed to stimulate early-literacy skills of babies and very young children, book artists may employ this form in other contexts as well.
Book Objects
Often these are sculptural works that take the form of, or incorporate, books but that do not communicate in the ways characteristic of a conventional book, such as being experienced sequentially or having discrete pages.
Broadsides
Format in which a large sheet of paper is printed on only one side and not folded.
Calendars
Registers of days or other contrivances for reckoning days, months, years, etc., such as a table showing the division of a given year into its months, weeks, days, years, or other divisions of time.
Chapbooks
Small books or pamphlets, usually cheaply printed and containing such texts as popular tales, treatises, ballads, or nursery rhymes, formerly peddled by chapmen.
Collages
Works in two dimensions or low relief in which relatively flat materials, such as paper, cloth, or other materials are fixed to a support.
Comics (Graphic works)
Narrative works that employ sequential art, and often prose, to tell a story.
Cookbooks
Collections of recipes in book form. For instructions listing ingredients and procedures to prepare something, especially food.
Exhibition Catalogs
Publications that document the works displayed in an exhibition.
Facsimiles
Exact copies of an original object, usually in the same dimensions as the original, especially of books, documents, prints, and drawings.
Flag Books
Books that consist of rows of tabs of paper attached to an accordion-folded spine, allowing for the layering of complementary or contrasting images and narratives. Cataloged separately from accordion books, even though they are a type of accordion book.
Flip Books
Books that consist of a series of illustrations bound together in a sequence so that they create an illusion of animation when flipped rapidly.
Folded Books
Handmade books whose pages are folded in a variety of decorative ways.
Gatefold Books
Books with a spine on each side and an opening in the middle.
Informational Works
Works whose main purpose is to record and convey factual information.
Leaflets
Small printed works consisting of one small-sized leaf of paper folded and not stitched or bound, containing printed matter, chiefly for gratuitous distribution.
Mail Art
Art created by using the postal service to transport a work in progress, so as to incorporate postal markings such as stamps and postmarks into the art.
Maps
Refers to graphic or photogrammetric representations of the Earth's surface or a part of it, including physical features and political boundaries, where each point corresponds to a geographical or celestial position according to a definite scale or projection.
Miniature Books
Books that are smaller than the standard book size, usually with a height of three inches or less.
Photobooks
Works illustrated with original or borrowed photographs, with or without text, in which the essential information is conveyed by photographic images.
Playing Cards
Sets of cards that either follow a standard suit or have specialized markings and are used as game accessories or in fortune telling.
Poetry
Literary work in which special intensity is given to the expression of feelings and ideas by the use of distinctive style and rhythm.
Pop-up Books
Books in which elements of a picture spring out at the reader when the pages are opened or a tab is pulled.
Postcards
Cards on which a message may be written or printed for mailing without an envelope, usually at a lower rate than that for letters in envelopes.
Prose
Written or spoken language in its ordinary form, without metrical structure. Used for text-based works that do not fall into poetry.
Tunnel Books
Works bound at both sides, with accordion-style pages that are viewed through an opening in the cover.
