NASHVILLE, TN.- Originally scheduled to close on July 6, Artists’ Books from Postwar to Present has been extended through September 28, 2009. The exhibition will remain on display in the Courtyard gallery, previously known as the Post-45 gallery.

Artists’ Books from Post War to Present surveys strategies used by artists to make or publish books. Although this exhibition divides the works into four groups: fine press, independent press, zines, and the burgeoning field of online press, there are numerous ways to consider artists’ books.

This exhibition seeks not to define and distinguish a mode of artistic production, but rather to ask “what is an artist book?” Some artists collaborate with commercial publishers to create elaborately bound books; other artists create books using only text and cheaply print images; and still other artists retain complete creative authority by publishing their own works. Ultimately, artists’ books are less a format and more a means to distribute an idea.