To Illustrate and Multiply: An Open BookThe Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA), presents To Illustrate and Multiply: An Open Book, the first large-scale museum survey of artists' books in Los Angeles since 1978.
Organized by MOCA Librarian Lynda Bunting and MOCA Director of Publications Lisa Gabrielle Mark, To Illustrate and Multiply highlights a diverse range of conceptual strategies and formal processes, exploring how the ordering of visual, textual, and material information into book form affects meaning.
More than 100 artists are represented by over 130 works, which are drawn from MOCA's permanent and library collections as well as several public and private local collections.
To Illustrate and Multiply is on view at MOCA Pacific Design Center from October 19, 2008 through March 1, 2009.
"Since the 1960s, making books has been a significant part of contemporary art practice," said MOCA Director Jeremy Strick.
"Artists such as Ed Ruscha, John Baldessari, Douglas Huebler, and Al Ruppersberg, among many others, have created beautiful and iconic works in book form.
In addition to being the first major museum show of artists' books in Los Angeles in 30 years, To Illustrate and Multiply features an interactive reading lounge and a distinctive web site where viewers can access information about the show and watch videos of selected books set in motion.
These unique components help to bring the medium to life for viewers."
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