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In this book you will meet around 450 different book artists. Mainly from Sweden, many though internationally active, but also quite a few from Denmark and Germany. The only way to really see the Swedish scene must include neighbouring artists, because artists¿ books is a genre that know no limits - whether national or artistical.
This is indeed the first survey of artists¿ books from a Swedish point of view. Each chapter is an essay, a way to see and understand artists¿ books from different views - like The social room, The Body, Berlin, The workshop, The library and archive etc. Each chapter being a story of its own.
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Thomas Millroth has a long experience of the world of artists´ books. Through the years he has been involved in many projects with books and music. As a director at Ystad Art Museum he exposed artists books, mail art and other different printed matter, and he initiated quite a few projects making artists books in a nearby printing workshop inviting participants from Sweden, Denmark, Germany.
Millroth was born and educated in Stockholm, lives in Malmö, active as a writer, art- and music critic,
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In this book you will meet around 450 different book artists. Mainly from Sweden, many though internationally active, but also quite a few from Denmark and Germany. The only way to really see the Swedish scene must include neighbouring artists, because artists´ books is a genre that know no limits – whether national or artistical.
This is indeed the first survey of artists´ books from a Swedish point of view. Each chapter is an essay, a way to see and understand artists´ books from different views – like The social room, The Body, Berlin, The workshop, The library and archive etc. Each chapter being a story of its own.
