Krystyna Wasserman

Gorgeous photographs of unique artists' books, with essays.

p. 60 Libro-seme (Seed-book), 1983, Elisabetta Gut (a walnut(?) seed with pages of sheet music inside

p. 72-73 Bon Bon Mots, 1998, Julie Chen "confection-like book-objects"

p. 163 A Melherbe (To Malherbe), 1975, Mirella Bentivoglio - carved out of rose-colored onyx

Gorgeous and inspiring. Loved, loved, loved the actual works. And the accompanying statements/essays were informative rather than distracting. At least, for the most part.

If you are interested in Artists' Books, you'll enjoy this volume as it contains beautiful images and summations of 108 works of art created by women in the book arts. Just viewing the different forms a 'book' can take is inspirational.

A catalog and commentary of an exhibit of 58 books about girls and young women of courage, accomplishment and imagination. It includes 43 original illus from these books.