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

研究项目的对象是从历时和共时的角度看待艺术家的多种形状和形式的书籍（如livre d’artiste，雕塑书籍，书籍对象）。基本假设是，艺术家的书——一种混合艺术形式，将文本、图片和书的物质形式交织在一起——在与文学的密切和相互依存的关系中发展和繁荣起来。因此，通过与文学史上的趋势、风格和其他现象的比较，体裁的历史及其内在美学是可以理解的。该项目旨在编写一本手册或纲要，该手册或纲要(a)将艺术家的书籍作为一种类型，从多个系统的角度在一些全面的论文中进行研究，并且(b)还将详细介绍艺术家的书籍的更多形式和示例，这些形式和示例是特定的和具有代表性的类型。特别强调的是自我反思，书，媒体，语言和图像意识的作品的特点。在广泛的收藏中，特别是在HAB wolfenbttel中，可以找到一个选择范例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.