“The book’s ability to functon as a conceptual space. This is done either by presenting a conceptual piece or by using the book conceptually to duplicate a function normally served by a real space of performance or exhibition” (309)

Miles Deloster: “Television” 1981 “a blend of history, creative writing, documentary evidence and original insight”

“In works like Sol LeWitt’s book ‘Brick Wall’ sequence is mainly a matter of time, which makes the temporal extension of the work into an experience of reading” (258)

‘Maximilliana – Max Ernst and Iliazd “Maximilliana is a veritable catalogue of the possibilities of invented and conventional writing. Iliazd takes typography into many constellations and configurations to produce an effect of astronomical phenomena under observation” (231)

“Dieter Roth’s book production was the outgrowth of experimental work in graphic design combined with concrete poetry” (73)

This book lists so many books that I need to go find and look at…

“Its sequential regularity and its stable finitude. Order and binding, relation and containment; these are the basic principles of the book whether amplified, resisted, or transgressed.” (218)

“The vision becomes a book which is able to pass into the world with the fewest obstacles between conception and production, production and distribution.” (88)

That quickness between vision and conception…

“The mobility of the book is one of its most unique characteristics, as well as its capacity to be preserved through that mobility (imagine a painting which had passed from hand to hand, been carried on the subway for two weeks, and then ended up in the pocket of an airline seat only to be rediscovered and enjoyed again.) (88)