The Reva and David Logan Collection of Illustrated Books

Author: Robert Flynn Johnson

Publisher/Date: Fine Arts Museums San Francisco, 2001

ISBN: 088401102X

Format/Condition: NEW softcover book is in fine condition. 302 pages

Description: Occupying a vital if ambiguously defined position between the bibliophile community and the world of fine art, the livre d’artiste—literally, “artist’s book”—combines elements of both disciplines, juxtaposing literature and fine art in a way that’s difficult to classify and yet amazingly potent. Reva and David Logan have, for three decades, collected original artist’s books by Whistler, Burne-Jones, Toulouse-Lautrec, Matisse, Ernst, Man Ray, Rauschenberg, Johns, Motherwell, and especially Picasso, many of which were produced as individual volumes decorated by the artist’s own hand. Their collection, now at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, is beautifully presented here, with 500 captioned color illustrations.