Mass Produced Artworks: The Concept, History, and Teaching the Making of Artist Books
Session
Integrated Design
Description
Historical, social and current questions of contemporary visualization techniques used in mass-produced art books will be analyzed, with a specific focus on books produced by artists. A detailed historical overview of how artists used books as a medium of expressing their ideas will be presented, starting from early avant-garde (Surrealists, Dadaists, Constructivists, Situationists until our contemporary times. The aim is to show how the book-making has been utilized for advancing the experimental visualization techniques, by linking artistic and cultural innovations to inventions in design. Furthermore, the principal concepts of artist books will be discussed to show how the theoretical elaborations in this field contributed to the advancement of the experimental design. By referring to the writings of El Lissitzky, Karel Teige, Walter Benjamin, and others, we will argue that the innovative design emerges from the innovative concepts and theories. In conclusion, we will present a case study of our teaching experience with the students of Integrated Design at UBT during our Artist Books course where they designed experimental artist-books.
Keywords:
artist books, art books, artworks, avant-garde, visualization techniques, overview, educational methods, book-making
Session Chair
Ajhan Bajmaku
Session Co-Chair
Miran Mohar
Proceedings Editor
Edmond Hajrizi
ISBN
978-9951-437-69-1
Location
Pristina, Kosovo
Start Date
27-10-2018 9:00 AM
End Date
27-10-2018 10:30 AM
DOI
10.33107/ubt-ic.2018.218
Recommended Citation
Boynik, Sezgin and Bytyçi, Artrit, "Mass Produced Artworks: The Concept, History, and Teaching the Making of Artist Books" (2018). UBT International Conference. 218.
https://knowledgecenter.ubt-uni.net/conference/2018/all-events/218
Mass Produced Artworks: The Concept, History, and Teaching the Making of Artist Books
Pristina, Kosovo
Historical, social and current questions of contemporary visualization techniques used in mass-produced art books will be analyzed, with a specific focus on books produced by artists. A detailed historical overview of how artists used books as a medium of expressing their ideas will be presented, starting from early avant-garde (Surrealists, Dadaists, Constructivists, Situationists until our contemporary times. The aim is to show how the book-making has been utilized for advancing the experimental visualization techniques, by linking artistic and cultural innovations to inventions in design. Furthermore, the principal concepts of artist books will be discussed to show how the theoretical elaborations in this field contributed to the advancement of the experimental design. By referring to the writings of El Lissitzky, Karel Teige, Walter Benjamin, and others, we will argue that the innovative design emerges from the innovative concepts and theories. In conclusion, we will present a case study of our teaching experience with the students of Integrated Design at UBT during our Artist Books course where they designed experimental artist-books.