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Undergraduate Book Arts Studies

General Overview

The Book Arts sub-concentration is under development and currently functions as an interdisciplinary discipline for both Undergraduate and Graduate students. student binding a book The Book Art courses are designed so that students in the graphic, fine, and applied art disciplines can apply their own particular skills to a multifaceted form. In this context, we can converse about issues and techniques that expand our current knowledge and expressive concerns. Multi cultural traditions in bookmaking are explored along with both traditional and non-traditional approaches to them.

In addition to bookmaking techniques and structures, media and techniques of choice may include but are not limited to those used in printmaking, painting, digital media, letterpress, metals, photography, wood, ceramics, drawing, sculpture, and fibers.

Artists' books are a time based medium that challenge our contemporary concepts of reading and seeing, in a form which invites a unique and tactile intimacy with the viewer. These challenges put a healthy set of demands on the art student in their pursuit of qualities that engage the senses, the imagination, and the intellect.

The Facilites

Read detailed information on our facilities on the Book Arts Facilities page, where you can also link to other interdisciplinary facilities within the School of Art, Design, and Art History.

You can also read more about local art material supplier resources on our Art Supplies page, as well as learn more about our library research facilities by visiting SDSU's Love Library website(external link).

The Faculty

To contact or learn more about individual faculty in this department, please click on their names below:

This page was last updated at 11:06AM on October 16, 2008