Artists' Books, Altered Books, & Book Art (Tri-Co): Van Horn, Erica

Erica Van Horn's books offer miniaturist celebrations of small rituals and everyday civic and household matter, from shop signs, cook books and French lessons to napkins and envelope interiors. "I use the portability of the printed sheet, mostly in book form," Van Horn writes, "to construct a narrative around the incidental parts of my life." The books recorded in this volume remember everything-they discover, explore, and sometimes enact their specific content, but each also tells the story of its making, its reason for being, and its creator's process. The Book Remembers Everythingis published on the occasion of an exhibition of Erica Van Horn's work curated by Nancy Kuhl at the Beinecke Library at Yale University January 13 through March 27, 2010. SC Copy