Although libraries are no longer simply storehouses of printed materials, it is still true that when people hear the word library the image that most often comes to mind is the traditional building filled with books. Worth a Thousand Words: The Book as Image looks at the book objectified, its message revealed not by the text on its pages but by its very image.
Curated by Library staff members and ITDS graduate student Darren Sargent, Worth a Thousand Words: The Book as Image exhibited the work of both two- and three-dimensional artists who have created work objectifying the book and in so doing making it an aesthetic or conceptual component in their work. In the works presented the artists did not use the book to convey information with written language or a series of images on successive pages. Instead, each artist used the image of the book itself as the convenyor of communication.
Artists:
- Robert Arneson
- Ray Beldner
- Mary Eubank
- Doug Hall
- Wally Hedrick
- Candida Hofer
- Brooke Holve
- Zea Morvitz
- Jim Pomeroy
- Lucy Puls
- Travis Somerville
- Henry Turmon
- Catherine Wagner