Chapter Overview

A visual book is an experimental structure that conveys ideas, actions, and emotions in an integrated and interdependent format. Each page is connected in some way to the preceding page and the following page.
Visual books combine two-dimensional composition with three-dimensional structure and may use time and narrative very deliberately. They may be entirely visual, entirely verbal, or may mix words and images.
In selecting a text, consider its potential to generate ideas, how a text will be divided and distributed over multiple pages, the rhythm and music of the words, and the significance of the ideas.
Every typestyle has its own distinctive quality, which can add or detract from the meaning of the book.
The combination of words and images in a visual book can encourage the development of complex ideas using layers of meaning.
An installation may be defined as an ensemble of images and objects that is presented within a three-dimensional environment. When the viewer enters an installation, he or she is physically surrounded and aesthetically engaged.
An installation may be primarily spatial in nature, primarily temporal, or may use both equally. The context in which an installation occurs can add to, subtract from, or expand its meaning.
Installation art offers a fresh perspective on a familiar setting or situation, is usually done in large scale, and requires some viewer involvement.
Performance art is live art designed by artists. Combining aspects of theater, music, art, and dance, it offers both the artist and the audience a laboratory for aesthetic experimentation.
Many performance artists use time very deliberately, expand their ideas through collaboration, and seek to blur the boundaries between art and life.
Each of the interdisciplinary arts described in this chapter requires substantial audience participation. As a result, relationships between the artist and the audience are constantly being redefined by contemporary artists.

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