The diploma thesis explores the media of artist's book and zine from the perspective of art form, focusing on the connection between the media and the field of bookbinding. It investigates the presence of hand bookbindings in zines and artist's books included in some collections of artists' publications.
The theoretical part outlines the history of the book and presentes the basic design features of the book media. It presents the basic hand bookbinding processes, focusing on the most common hand book bindings. It briefly discuses artist's books and zines, and presents some of the collections of artist's publications in Slovenia.
The next section presents the research of artist's books and zines, collected in three selected collections of art publications. The research focuses on different hand bookbindings, which are present in the artist's books and zines. It also presents three intervviews with creators, collectors or curators, working in the field of artist's books and zines. The interviews discuss the presence and importance of bookbinding in the field of art publication.
In the last section of the diploma thesis I present my own artist's book. The presentation is focused on the process of making the artist book, in which I paid special attention to hand bookbinding practice.
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