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title:

Book Art Object 2

editor and designer: David Jury
publisher: Codex Foundation, California
date: 2013

The success of Book Art Object (and the bi-annual Codex symposium and book fair) made a follow-up catalogue inevitable. Book Art Object 2, displays all exhibited work from the 2011 fair and a selection of the symposium lectures from 2009 and 2011.

White hardback cover of Book Art Object 2, published by Codex, with the title in bold red capitals

The success of Book Art Object (and the bi-annual Codex symposium and book fair) made a follow-up catalogue inevitable. Book Art Object 2, containing exhibited work and a selection of the symposium lectures from 2009 and 2011.

Spread from Book Art Object 2, edited by David Jury and Peter Rutledge Koch: red endpapers with a weathered painted texture
Spread from Book Art Object 2, edited by David Jury and Peter Rutledge Koch: the title page with BOOK ART OBJECT 2 in large red capitals
Spread from Book Art Object 2, edited by David Jury and Peter Rutledge Koch: the imprint page opposite the contents
Spread from Book Art Object 2, edited by David Jury and Peter Rutledge Koch: the opening page of the foreword
Spread from Book Art Object 2, edited by David Jury and Peter Rutledge Koch: a full-spread close-up photograph of dark sparkling mineral crystals
Spread from Book Art Object 2, edited by David Jury and Peter Rutledge Koch: a photograph of a worn label reading Odyssey opposite the Speakers section title
Spread from Book Art Object 2, edited by David Jury and Peter Rutledge Koch: essay text with photographs of textured book works and a long landscape print
Spread from Book Art Object 2, edited by David Jury and Peter Rutledge Koch: a full-spread close-up photograph of folded red fabric
Spread from Book Art Object 2, edited by David Jury and Peter Rutledge Koch: a photograph of a worn sign reading Frankenstein's Monster opposite the Exhibitors section title
Spread from Book Art Object 2, edited by David Jury and Peter Rutledge Koch: photographs of a book work with drawings on translucent pages
Spread from Book Art Object 2, edited by David Jury and Peter Rutledge Koch: photographs of Paris Perpendicular by David Jury, Fox Ash Press, in its red and white box
Spread from Book Art Object 2, edited by David Jury and Peter Rutledge Koch: colourful artists' books including New York and Dada titles
Spread from Book Art Object 2, edited by David Jury and Peter Rutledge Koch: photographs of a book with dark abstract prints opposite three bread-like book sculptures
Spread from Book Art Object 2, edited by David Jury and Peter Rutledge Koch: photographs of a press studio with bookshelves, type cases and ink tins
Spread from Book Art Object 2, edited by David Jury and Peter Rutledge Koch: the index