Artists And Their Books, Books And Their Artists

This volume highlights artists' interest in books, revealing them as an essential medium in contemporary art: many artists, known primarily as sculptors, painters and performance artists, pursue a parallel practice in artists' books, including Anselm Kiefer, Annette Messager, Ed Ruscha and Richard Tuttle.
This book includes more than one hundred masterpieces selected from the Getty Research Institute's special collections of over six thousand unique editions and artists' books.