What’s an artist’s book? Does it have to be handmade? A small edition? Wikipedia has this (rather convoluted) quote from Stephen Bury (Artists’ Books: The Book As a Work of Art, 1963-1995)
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“Artists’ books are books or book-like objects over the final appearance of which an artist has had a high degree of control; where the book is intended as a work of art in itself.” | |
I’d argue that many children’s books are artist’s books. Especially Math Curse, by writer Jon Scieszka and illustrator Lane Smith, with their inventive type treatments and illustrations (you can see more pages from the book here). Two more that I have in my collection are The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales also by Scieszka and Smith and The Incredible Book-Eating Boy by Oliver Jeffers.