Skip to Main Content

Artists' Books

Learn about artists' books and explore the Libraries' collection.
A red pop-up book opened to reveal a dozens of pop-up squares in the shape of a triangle. The left half of the triangle is blue and the right half is yellow.

[2,3]

Tauba Auerbach, 2010.
 
Auerbach has created an oversized pop-up book featuring six die-cut paper sculptures that unfold into wonderfully elaborate forms. Each "page" opens into a beautifully constructed object.                                   
 

A white book with star-bound pages that pop up when the book is opened. One of the visible pages has the book's title. The other two have woven colored strips.

Color - by the Book

Pamela S. Wood, 1997.
 
A gorgeous handmade artists' book which references Josef Albers’ Interaction of Color with a quote from Albers on the first page. This work has a three-dimensional quality, best viewed from above. 
 
Video

Yellow pages with a photograph of a billboard displaying the words "Buy the book." Right underneath is a second set of pages containing images from a phone book.

Safety in Numbers

Scott McCarney, 1985.
 
Series of repeating photos of billboard displaying the words "Buy the book." Pages cut out to reveal a second set of pages containing images from a phone book that can be flipped through within the larger book.
 

An all-white pop-up book opened to reveal 3-dimensional stairs.

Stairs

Rein Jansma, 1982.
 
Architectural pop-up book with no text but 10 different configurations of pop-up stairs.                                                                                                                                                                                                      

Book spread filled with comics drawn on yellow paper. There are squares cut out in the middle of the book to reveal layers of pages on five different colors of paper.

Pop Pup Dog Day

A.T. Pratt, 2014.
 
A.T. Pratt's newest comic book / 4D visual experience features 32 black and white pages of dog walking fun and excitement that unfold through fold outs, pop-ups and cut-out doorways in five different colors of paper.


  Report a Problem with this Page