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Manuel Neri Artists
Bruce Nixon, Robert Flynn Johnson
Manuel Neri’s work with the artists’ book is almost certainly his least known. The number of these projects has been few, four so far, all produced in very limited numbers. Until now, these books have been scarcely documented, at least in comparison to Neri’s voluminous production as a sculptor. Consistent with the substantial tradition of thelivre d’artiste, Neri’s artists’ books represent a lengthy, sometimes intense collaborative process between artists and author, one that may consume years or even decades. As an art medium, the livre d’artiste is unavoidably infected by its incorporation of a literacy text and its book-like nature; in form alone, it bears a kinship to the history and critical discourse of the book. The contemporary artists’ book maintains a distinctive, if esoteric, discourse with its own history. Although its existence as a marginalized art form grants it a certain freedom, the artists’ book is now a historical medium, like sculpture or painting: an open form, to be sure, still available to highly original application. Bruce Nixon, an independent scholar, has written extensively about contemporary art. He has written monographs on Jessica Dunne, Charles Ginnever, Young June Lew, Younhee Paik, as well as contributing to Frank Lobdell: The Art of Making and Meaning. He served as editor-in-chief (1990–96) of Artweek, a monthly art newspaper based in California. Robert Flyhnn Johnson is Curator-in-Charge of the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, Fine Arts Museums of San Franscisco.
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