Abstract:

I would like to present the argument that artists working in the book form, from William Blake, through
William Morris, Edward Burne-Jones and the Kelmscott Press, and later the Bauhaus, Dadaists, Supremacists
and Futurists, through the Russian Constructivists and their contemporaries, have infl uenced
book design. Using this history I would like to argue that these artists’ books and publications
have had a large infl uence on the graphic design of their period and beyond. Artists’ books and graphic
design are often inextricably intertwined.