Canadian Women Artists' Books

Foreword

The Creative Codex and Its Variants

Why are so many books being produced in such fine form and variety of expression by women working in Canada in the recent decades? No doubt many factors account for this abundance — strong women writers...

Introduction

In an era when books are often read in transit – while waiting for the bus, while on the fly between the multitude of obligations that define our busy lives – artists’ books re-centre the book as the focal object. Since their inception, the aim of artists’ books has been to push the limits of the traditional book...