Art

Book Structures: Image & Text is a course designed for cross-disciplinary artistic investigation between the humanities, the arts, and the sciences; between writers and image-makers of any and all kinds.  Specifically, the course will introduce a diverse group of students to a broad range of contemporary artists’ books, encouraging new perspectives for how to appreciate what a book can be. Individual and collaborative book projects will be completed during the semester, illuminating the artists’ book as a powerful format for artistically presenting work from diverse fields of scholarship in a finished format, uniting form and content.  This course will be a balance between learning the technical tools of bookbinding and the conceptual/aesthetic concerns that come with making books:  exploring the relationship between historical and innovative structures, the relationship between text and image, and how to work with sequencing images and words to develop complex and expressive meanings. 

(ARTS 247: prerequisite or consent of Assistant Professor Alexander Mouton, moutona@denison.edu)