 An artist's book
A personal work, free of commercialization and fashions.
We present experimental books, manuscripts, author's books, small
presses, unique books, book-objects, pieces of art where words,
pictures and spatial form make an integral unity.
We hope that soon a real artist's book market will be developed in
Poland (auctions, fairs, galleries, art presses). An artist will make
books on individual demands. We would like publishing houses to
cooperate more courageously and ambitiously with book artists to bring
to the public more visionary publications.
Since the 1990s the revival and developement of book art in Poland is
related to the cyclic Contemporary Polish Book Art exhibitions. The
catalogues (published in Polish and English) contains a lot of very
useful pieces of information: colour reproductions, technical
descriptions, artists' commentaries, biographies - they can be good
guides for publishers, culture researchers, teachers, collectors and
everybody interested in developement and promotion of Polish Book Art.
We would be very grateful for any help and support for the Book Art
project.
We invite sponsors, institutions, companies and individuals to
cooperate.
Long live the
books!
Alicja Słowikowska
the curator |
