ARTIST BOOKS

what are they?

Artist books are symbols of the artist themself. they are books of their own little treasures that can symbolise their present life, their past, future etc. These books can contain all their secrets, fears, hopes, dreams, emotions, thoughts, feelings, and other things that means something to them.

Here are some examples of artist books:

This one is by Janine Wong, she titled it the"Wong-book"



This one i found on anima designs, i don't know the title of the work, but i thought i was quite exsquisite so i chose it as an example:



This one is by Lisa Kokin, and as weird this seems, this is actually an artist book, this is called mixed media artis book:




MY ARTIST BOOK

I am using an old pink leather make-up case for my artist book, i have had it since i was younger so this can symbolise my past. I intend on putting lace around it to give it a unique texture and design. I think that keeping the pink colour will help symbolise my feminism from my past to now. Inside i will have treasured memories (my pages, not attached to the book) that are peices of artwork, these are images of me asending in age starting from when i was a baby to now. So far i have completed two of my pages, one of which will be one of my final pages as it is me as my currect age, the other will be one of the first as i am very young in this image;

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Juxtaposition.

Latley in class there has been alot of talk about JUXTAPOSITION so, typical me, i googled it :-) and this is what i found.

"Juxtaposition means things side-by-side. In art this usually is done with the intention of bringing out a specific quality or creating an effect, particularly when two contrasting or opposing elements are used. "

I also found a few cool pictures under the title of juxtaposition:

ASH MATH

In term one for visual art in grade nine, we are learning about collages..

But what is a collage excactly?
From the source "dictionary.com" there were five definitions for the word collage:

–noun
1.
a technique of composing a work of art by pasting on a single surface various materials not normally associated with one another, as newspaper clippings, parts of photographs, theater tickets, and fragments of an envelope.
2.
a work of art produced by this technique. Compare assemblage (def. 3).
3.
an assemblage or occurrence of diverse elements or fragments in unlikely or unexpected juxtaposition: The experimental play is a collage of sudden scene shifts, long monologues, musical interludes, and slapstick.
4.
a film that presents a series of seemingly unrelated scenes or images or shifts from one scene or image to another suddenly and without transition. –verb (used with object)
5.
to make a collage of: The artist has collaged old photos, cartoon figures, and telephone numbers into a unique work of art.
From my perspective, a collage is collection of items, pictures, words etc put together to form one peice of artwork.

One collage that i find inspirational and interesting is:

We have also been disscusing and creating exquisite corpses, an exquisite corpse (my definition) is like a collage but the peices are put together to form one sigle thing, this may be a person or amimal or both put together, im not too sure if my definition is correct so i did some reserch:

"Exquisite corpse (also known as "exquisite cadaver" or "rotating corpse") is a method by which a collection of words or images are collectively assembled, the result being known as the exquisite corpse or cadavre exquis in French. "

here are some examples:

DADA

What is dada?
source:

"Dada began in Switzerland in 1916. The artists who started it were against World War I. They wanted to rebel against the horrors of war. Their motto was "Destruction is also creation" because Dada had no rules. Dada had no values. Dada shocked people. The Dada artists liked to do absurd art. It may be one of the strangest art styles ever invented. Dadaists did not even want to be called an art movement!

The Dadaists first met at a café in Zurich. Their leader was named Tristan Tzara. He was a poet from Romania. The story goes that someone took a knife, opened a dictionary, and stabbed the page. The knife hit the word dada, so that is what they named their group. Some believe that the term Dada came from a Slavic word that meant "Yes! Yes!" Others think it came from a French word for a horse. Regardless of how the movement was named, others in Europe and American joined the Dadaists after the war was over.

The movement primarily involved visual arts, literature (poetry, art manifestoes, art theory), theatre, and graphic design, and concentrated its anti war politic through a rejection of the prevailing standards in art through anti-art cultural works. Dada activities included public gatherings, demonstrations, and publication of art/literary journals. Passionate coverage of art, politics, and culture filled their publications. The movement influenced later styles, Avant-garde and Downtown music movements, and groups including Surrealism, Nouveau Réalisme, Pop Art and Fluxus."