TABLE OF CONTENTS

CHAPTER 1
Introduction: The Protean Artist's Book [ 7 ]

CHAPTER 2
Transitions
Ania Staritsky • Pierre Alechinsky • Paolo Boni
Shirley Sharoff • Pierre-André Arnal [ 15 ]

CHAPTER 3
Visual Deviants and Typographical Departures
Telfer Stokes/Helen Douglas • Sixtus/Jacques Malgorn/Pierre Mabille
Walter Hamady [ 33 ]

CHAPTER 4
Perturbations in our Reading Habits
Roberto Martinez • Michael Woolworth/José Maria Sicilia
Francine Zubeil • Sixtus/Jean François Lacalmontie • Susan King
Janet Zweig • Dieter Roth • Kevin Osborn [ 53 ]

CHAPTER 5
Altering Books--The Cutting Edge of Reading
Tom Phillips • Helen Brunner • Elisabeth Broel • Harry Reese
Buzz Spector • Robert Groborne • Jean Le Gac • Scott McCarney [ 71 ]

CHAPTER 6
Variations on the Accordion
Anne Walker • Bertrand Dorny • Susan King • Julie Chen
Clifton Meador • Philip Zimmermann [ 97 ]

CHAPTER 7
The Book, The Museum, and Public Art
Susan King • Jochen Gerz • Margot Lovejoy • Joan Lyons
Christian Boltanski • Annette Messager [ 123 ]

CHAPTER 8
Satire
Marcel Broodthaers • Terry Braunstein
Warren Lehrer/Dennis Bernstein • Ruth Laxson [ 149 ]

CHAPTER 9
Crystallizations of Memory
Nora Ligorano/Marshall Reese • Philip Zimmermann
Scott McCarney • Ed Epping [ 165 ]

CHAPTER 10
Narrative and Verbal Manipulation
Johanna Drucker • Paul Zelevansky • Harry Polkinhorn
Henri Chopin • Claude Closky • Keith Smith • Joëlle Dautricourt
Maurizio Nannucci • John Crombie • Barbara Fahrner [ 179 ]

CHAPTER 11
The Metamorphosis of Child-Like Games
Virginia Barrett • Erica Van Horn • Clarissa Sligh • Susan King [ 207 ]

CHAPTER 12
Fashioners of Books
John Eric Broaddus • Timothy Ely [ 221 ]

CHAPTER 13
On the Situation of Artists' Books [ 241 ]

color plates [ following page 122 ]

photo credits [ 245 ]

bibliography [ 247 ]

index [ 255 ]