Blood on Paper: The Art of the Book

At a time when the notion of the book is challenged by the advent of the screen and computer,Blood on Paperaims to show the extraordinary ways in which the book has been treated by leading artists of today and the recent past. Focusing on new and contemporary work and on books where the artist has been the driving force in conception and design, this innovative collection comprises a series of unbound booklets presented in a box. Almost all notable artists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have produced books, or works that refer to books: those represented include artists as diverse as Matisse, Picasso, Hockney, Hirst, Motherwell, and many others whose names are synonymous with art today.Foster, Elena is the author of 'Blood on Paper: The Art of the Book', published 2008 under ISBN 9781851775392 and ISBN 1851775390.