Fluke is a one-of-a-kind book assembled from dice. I have used dice before. By reusing dice, I wanted to assemble something more open and less regular this time, and one whose pattern is happenstance. I think of it as a 3D sketch.
Book Forms - Tablet, bamboo, scroll, papyrus, codex rotundus, French doors, fortune teller, concertina, map fold, Turkish map fold, loose leaf newspaper, Dwarsligger, flip book, note book, pop up book, miniature, kamishibai, paperback, iPad, artist’s book
Blog: Book Forms
More Book Forms - hardback, dos-à-dos (back-to-back), zine, concertina, octopus, papyrus scroll, illustrated manuscript, guide book, carousel, choose your own adventure books, experimental books, manga, photobook, bunkobon, dragon scale binding, the anti-book, text books, audiobooks, microform film, and the book as sculpture (Robert The, Readers' Digest).
Even More Book Forms - Japanese stab binding, swatch book, crown binding, fan book, Bananote (by @pichikpachik), exploded book, digital sketchbook, flag book, exquisite corpse, Victorian peep hole, chapbook, passport, colouring book, smart phone book, scroll book (Ai Hashimoto), message in a bottle, dream journal, fish bone fold, altered book (Noriko Ambe), and the world’s largest pop up book.
Bruno Munari, ‘An Unreadable Quadrat’ (1953)
Blog: Artists' Books
What can a book be? How can the form of the book be used as an artwork in itself? Often published in small editions, or produced as one-of-a-kind objects, Artists’ Books came about as an alternative space to produce and/or disseminate ideas.
Generally speaking, Artists’ Books are interactive, portable, movable and easily shared but this genre is vast.
Here follows an all-too-brief selection of modern artists whom have reconfigured the mediavel invention:
Dieter Roth, ‘bok 4a’ (1961)
Lygia Clark, ‘Livro-obra’ (1964-1983)
Ed Ruscha, ‘Every building on the Sunset Strip (1966)
George Maciunas, ‘Fluxkit' (1966–67)
Augusto de Campos, Open (Abre), (1969)
Marcel Broodthaers, ‘Atlas’ (1975)
Sol Lewitt, ‘Brick Wall’ (1977)
Julije Knifer, ‘Hölderlin, Der Rhein’ (1984)
Yaacov Agam, ‘Rainbow Torah’, (1992)
Ettore Spalletti, ‘Salle de Fêtes’ (1998)
Peter Fischli and David Weiss, ‘Will happiness find me?’ (2003)
Christian Marclay, ‘Shuffle’ (2007)
Allan McCollum, ’The Book of Shapes’ (2010)
Sun Young Kang, ‘Memories Unfolded’ (2011)
Les Bicknell, ‘The Weight of Invisibility’ (2012)
Tauba Auerbach, ‘Stab/Ghost’ (2013)
Noriko Ambe, A Piece of Flat Globe Volume 34 (2013)
Valérie Buess, ‘Boycotting Its Original Content’ (2017)
Julie Johnstone, ‘The Sound of the Rain’ (2017)