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- College of Art and Design Lesley University
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- 3/23/2016
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Square / 8" x 8"84 pages Perfect-bound
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The exhibition, “Reading with the Senses,” includes 54 international contemporary artists’ books. The show is guest-curated by Ruth R. Rogers, Curator of Special Collections at Wellesley College. As a genre, artists’ books are primarily viewed in terms of their non-traditional structures and materials, privileging them as ‘art’ but isolating them from the central act of reading.
In this exhibition, Rogers interrogates the books shown, to understand their effect upon the reader. Themes of time, space, movement, material presence, memory, language, and music are explored, and their persistence long after the viewing is over. Whether consciously or not, we are asked to read and comprehend not by text alone, but with our senses.
