This exhibition features 27 cases of modern artists’ books using text in imaginative and extraordinary ways.  From the first edition of Gregory Corso’s Bomb to work created in the last six months, the exhibition displays a wide variety of materials, forms, concepts, authors and artists.  In keeping with curator Sandra Kroupa’s refusal to define the word “book”, represented are books which are beds, underwear, horses, knitted scrolls, fortune cookies, pillows, clay tablets and snakes.  The exhibition was installed for the International Conference of the Society for Textual Scholarship being held at the UW March 20-22, 2014. The exhibition can be viewed Monday, Thursday and Friday 10-4:45 and Tuesday and Wednesday 10-7:45 in the Basement of the Allen Library. (See open hours),
Image: Pure Goods (detail) by C. Christopher Stern, Grey Spider Press, 2001, letterpress