Welcome to the Art and Books website
The primary aim of the Art and Books website is to provide access to resources for students studying ART317 Art and Books at Charles Sturt University. In this subject students consider books of different types in terms of the relationships between images and text; form and content; and method production and end product . The website contains essays written for this purpose and a collection of links to external web resources of relevance to the subject. The resources are organised into eight groups, each linked to a topic studied by students.
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The Book Form
What is a book? The resources in this section offer various views on this question and a brief overview of the history of the book.
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Gutenberg and After
This section looks at the development of the printed book and at the ways in which printing technology influenced the visual appearance of the book.
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Comics
The resources in this section focus on the comic, a form in which word and image are inextricably linked.
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Artist's Books
The links in this section lead to discussions about artist’s books and a wealth of examples, ranging from William Blake’s illuminated books to contemporary work in the genre.
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Illuminated Manuscripts
This section provides information about the making of manuscripts and links to digital versions of some of the most famous examples of illuminated manuscripts.
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Fine Printing
This section deals with changes in nineteenth century printing technology and looks at two attempts to restore the book to the status of an art object: the efforts of William Morris and the French tradition of the Livre d’Artiste.
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Children's Illustrated Books
Children’s illustrated books bring together word and image in order to tell a story. This section links to information about selected children’s book illustrators of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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The Future
The final section of the web site deals with the impact of digital technology on the book form. The resources range from Vannevar Bush’s ‘As We May Think’, written in 1945 to examples of ‘digital books’.
