Lugar impresso: relações entre a paisagem e o livro de artista

Abstract

This research investigates the relationship between the landscape and the artist’s book. This study is in direct dialogue with my own poetic production and with the Artist’s Book Collection, at UFMG. At first, the emergence of landscape in art and its influence on Western culture is discussed. This event shapes a new understanding of the world, in order to highlight its relationship with the fragment and with temporality. Secondly, this study analyses the aspects that constitute the book - textuality, materiality, page, author and reader;then, it establishes a discussion about the definition of the artist’s book. Finally, it investigates the landscape as a form of reading, and the artist’s book as a printed place. The artist’s books developed throughout this research are attached to this volume. They are: Instructions for another possible landscape, Ausências, brasil and Céu Terra. They are all presented and discussed throughout this text.