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Article: ART BOOKS: An invisible art.
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- Design Week
- Article date:
- April 3, 2008
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Art books - be they artefacts in themselves or books about artists - have a venerable history. Fraser Muggeridge, an art book designer himself, checks out a major exhibition on this subject
Books Do Furnish a Room was the title of a novel by Anthony Powell in 1971 - and art books are particularly precious items of interior decoration. If having books on the shelf is commonly seen as a sign of intelligence and being 'well read', to have art books shows something more: that you are a connoisseur, a collector.
The art book has its own tradition, picked up by a new exhibition at London's Victoria & Albert Museum called Blood on Paper. It features books ...