The Circle Press at The Herron Library, IUPUI, Indianapolis

This is a sample blog about the wonderful collection of Artists' Books held at the Herron Art Library at IUPUI, Indianapolis. This collection has been carefully developed by the special collections librarians and they have taken great care to collect representative works from a variety of artists/authors who demonstrate, through their work, the boundless range of invention and materials in creating these 'books'. 'Book' is deliberately placed in inverted commas as there is a constant debate about whether these creations are books in the generally understood definition, or works of art. As one dealer in these works once asked about an artist book, "is it the goblet or the wine?"
Though the collection at Herron Library is large, consisting of over 100 items, I have particularly been interested in the books produced by Ron King at The Circle Press.