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The book has always been a source of fascination to artists. As a vessel enclosing content, as an object aside from word and meaning, as a toxic medium that can be deconstructed by visual means, as a surface for painting or drawing, for covering with ornamental letters and figuration, or as a module within the framework of a value-added chain. The fundamental contradiction between image and text – the former an aesthetic configuration that can be grasped simultaneously, the latter a narrative structure that is decoded sequentially – is at the same time an agent in the reciprocal fertilization …