Johanna Drucker is a distinguished writer, typographic poet, and scholar-critic. Her interests include history of the book, alphabet historiography, modeling interpretation for electronic scholarship, digital aesthetics, and the design of information visualization. Her writings have helped shape the field of visual poetics and digital aesthetics. She is also a prolific creative artist with more than four-dozen editioned artist’s book to her credit. The DRUCKWORKS retrospective allows audiences to experience the course of her artistic development while offering key insights into the evolution of the field of artists’ books as an interdisciplinary, and often collaborative, artistic and literary activity.
Organized by the Center for Book and Paper Arts at Columbia College Chicago.