
Its curatorial element makes Dave Dyment’s Artists’ Books and Multiples site an excellent resource for lovers of book art. Its existence also slyly highlights the recursive nature of his own bookwork. Book art is inherently self-referential. Be it the newspaper, a Kubrick film, a Ruscha work, a Beatles album, pop singles, TV series, photos or crossovers among media — all media constitute Dyment’s palette, brush, canvas, armature, chisel, pen, pencil, camera, sound recorder, surface and raw material for his own book art.
In Maria Fusco’s Put About: A Critical Anthology on Independent Publishing (London: Book Works, 2004), Paul Clayden noted in ‘Tropes’ that ‘it is peculiar to and to the credit of the contemporary art world to be so analytical, at times interrogative, of the book form’.
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