The Artist's Book as Aesthetic Experiment: History and Poetics of a Hybrid Genre

研究对象是从历时和共时的角度看艺术家作品的多种形态和形式(如活生生的艺术家、雕塑书籍、书物)。基本假设是，艺术家的书--一种将文本、图片和书的材料形式交织在一起的混合艺术形式--是在与文学密切而相互依存的关系中发展和繁荣起来的。因此，通过与文学史上的倾向和趋势、风格和其他现象进行比较，可以使这一体裁的历史及其内在美学变得可接近和理解。该项目的目的是编写一本手册或简编，(A)在许多综合性论文中从多个系统的角度将艺术家的书作为一种流派来对待，(B)还将说明艺术家的书的大量形式和实例，这些形式和例子是该流派特有的和具有代表性的。特别强调的是作品的自我反思性、书本意识、媒介意识、语言意识和图片意识。在广泛的收藏中，特别是在HAB Wolfenbüttel的收藏中，可以找到一个选择典型艺术家书籍的语料库。

Object of the research project is the artist's book in its multiple shapes and forms (such as livre d'artiste, sculptural book, book object) seen from diachronic as well as synchronic perspectives. The basic hypothesis is that the artist's book - a hybrid form of art that interweaves texts, pictures, and the material form of the book - has developed and flourished in a close and interdependent relationship to literature. Hence, the history of the genre and its innate aesthetics are to be made accessible and comprehensible by means of comparison with tendencies and trends, styles, and other phenomena within the history of literature. The project aims at compiling a handbook or compendium that (a) approaches the artist's book as a genre from multiple systematic perspectives in a number of comprehensive treatises, and that will (b) also circumstantiate a larger number of forms and examples of the artist's book that are specific to and representative to the genre. Special emphasis lies on the self-reflective, book-, media-, language- and picture-aware character of the works in question. A corpus for the selection of paradigmatic artist's books is found in extensive collections, especially of the HAB Wolfenbüttel.