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Avant-garde Artist's Books

Date/Time:Daily from Sat., December 6 until Sun., May 24

Avant-garde Artists' Books

Ben Palosaari

Avant-garde Artists' Books

The cliché "don't judge a book by its cover" definitely doesn't belong at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts' new exhibit "Breaking with Convention: Avant-Garde Artist's Books." That's for a couple of reasons: first, because some of the books won't even have conventional covers, and of the books that do, several are not in the exhibit because of the covers. From the former category, the show includes Surplus Values #13 deluxe edition, which was "published" (which seems like the wrong word for what the book is) by local art-book outfit Indulgence Press. The Surplus Values #13 deluxe edition includes a galley proof of the book, complete with notes in the margins, and a collection of objects meant to be the possessions of a mental patient character in the story. The packaging also includes a an empty space that just happens to be the perfect size for a standard copy of the book, which the publisher says should make the book owner obsessed with the need to fill the space and complete the set. Art that's meant to make you go a little crazy must be good.

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