The author’s elemental and romantic soul is manifested not only in her personal opinions, but also in the analytical approach that underlies the chapter entitled Questions about books and craft, in which she addresses a series of questions to leading Czech bibliophiles, theoreticians, artists and restorers. Through these questions, the author seeks to explore the essence and challenges of artists’ books – a form of art which finds it hard to deal with the accelerated flow of digital perception that characterizes our contemporary world. The book includes reproductions of works exhibited at Ostrava’s House of Art, as well as many more images. Most of the photographs presented in the book concern books created by Čabalová herself – works which confirm her standing as one of today’s leading book artists, not only in the Czech Republic but also on the international scene.
Publication concept: Eliška Čabalová, Lenka Mičolová
Graphic design: Lenka Mičolová
Photo editor: Lenka Mičolová
Texts: Petra Herotová, Eliška Čabalová, Iva Knobloch, Jiří Ptáček, J, H. Kocman, Zdeněk Křenek, Petr Choma, Vladimír Kraus, Erik Križovenský, Hana Karkanová, Pavel Muchka, Lubomír Krupka, Ivan Kopáčik, Jan Hybner, Ivo Binder, Ĺuboslav Paĺo, Olga Hrušková, Vlasta Tomanová
Editors: Eliška Čabalová, Marek Franz
Photographs: Petr Vaněk, Marie Pribulová, Tom Rydel, Dita Pepe, Fedor Gabčan, MArtin Daniš, Eliška Čabalová
Paper: GardaPat 11 150 g/m2
Cover: GardaPat 11 250 g/m2
Font: Suisse Int´l, Ogg
Print: TISKÁRNA GRAFICO s.r.o., Opava
Print run: 300 ks
Published by Fakulta umění, Ostravská univerzita, Ostrava 2021
ISBN 978-80-7599-214-7
The Gallery of Fine Arts in Ostrava is funded by the Moravian-Silesian Region.
