{"id":2649,"date":"2023-09-25T14:21:16","date_gmt":"2023-09-25T13:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/specialcollections\/?p=2649"},"modified":"2023-09-25T14:21:16","modified_gmt":"2023-09-25T13:21:16","slug":"artists-books-collection-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/specialcollections\/2023\/09\/25\/artists-books-collection-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Artists&#8217; Books Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Artists&#8217; Books Collection was established in 1998 following the exhibition\u00a0<em>Books As Art\u00a0<\/em>held at Cheltenham Museum and Art Gallery, Cheltenham Town Hall and the Pittville Campus of Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education (a predecessor college of the University of Gloucestershire).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Artists&#8217; Books are created by fine artists and are also known as book art or bookworks. They come in all shapes and sizes, covering diverse topics from Trump to the Trojan War. They can use traditional book bindings or other material, and are often published in small or even single editions.<\/p>\n<p>Our collection includes works by Andrew Bick, Melanie Council, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Hamish Fulton, Robert Lax, Chris Ophili, Terry Smith, John Cage and Andy Warhol.<\/p>\n<p>The collection is available to search on the <a href=\"https:\/\/glos.on.worldcat.org\/search?databaseList=&amp;queryString=B8%3AArtists+Books\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">University&#8217;s Library Catalogue<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/specialcollections\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/159\/sites\/452\/2023\/09\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2650\" width=\"573\" height=\"551\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/specialcollections\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/159\/sites\/452\/2023\/09\/image.png 550w, https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/specialcollections\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/159\/sites\/452\/2023\/09\/image-300x289.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 573px) 100vw, 573px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Artists&#8217; Books Collection was established in 1998 following the exhibition\u00a0Books As Art\u00a0held at Cheltenham Museum and Art Gallery, Cheltenham Town Hall and the Pittville Campus of Cheltenham and Gloucester [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1381,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[27,30,22],"class_list":["post-2649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists-books","tag-catalogue","tag-old-students-association","tag-university-archive"],"blocksy_meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}