ART 170 PZ -Sculptural Books Distributed Art

Institution: Pitzer

Description: Sculptural Books and Distributed Art: This studio course explores books as sculptural objects, emphasizing inventive approaches to materials, form, and encounter. Books are typically analyzed in terms of their content: the text and/or images presented. However, artists from a diverse range of cultural traditions have long resisted this splitting of content from form. From looping scrolls to hidden puzzles, handmade papers to scavenged junk, avant-garde children’s books to subscription-based mail-art, this course investigates strategies for actively engaging the reader’s tactile senses to shape textual meaning. Emphasizing hands-on experimentation, students will learn bookbinding, paper-making, sculptural assemblage, and casting techniques.

Prerequisite(s): See the current course schedule for registration restrictions.

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