Artists´Books

After the sudden appearance of movements such as Symbolism, Dada, Surrealism, Happenings, Action paintings, Concrete music, the CoBRA group, the FLUXUS group , a quantity of ideas were expanding and looking for a new way to express themselves. Since 1960 many artists, painters, musicians and poets found a space in the Artist Book that permitted to express themselves and to establish relationships with different conceptual proposals .

1897 -"A throw of the dice will never abolish chance " Stephane Mallarme
http://www.tonykline.co.uk/PITBR/French/MallarmeUnCoupdeDes.htm#_Toc160699751

1909- Filippo Tommaso Marinetti with the manifesto
http://cotati.sjsu.edu/spoetry/folder6/ng63.html

Duchamp
the green box