Artists’ Books: No Reading Required

Our good friend Webster defines the book primarily as “a set of written sheets of skin or paper, bound together in a volume” or “a long written or printed literary composition.” Its secondary (and, we feel, more progressive) definition is “something that yields knowledge or understanding.” The selections from Walker Art Center’s library on display at the Minnesota Center for Book Arts illustrate this broader definition—and how. You’ll find a variety of Bubba-Gump proportions—there are scrapbooks, pop-up books, boxed books, checkbooks, books-on-tape—as well as featured books of art and books as art from Marcel Duchamp, Dieter Roth, Edward Ruscha, and John Lennon and Yoko Ono. 1011 Washington Ave. S., Minneapolis; 612-215-2520; mcba@mnbookarts.org