Tiré du site Internet http://collguides.lib.uiowa.edu/?MSC0517: "Co-curated by Judith Hoffberg and Joan Hugo, Artwords and Bookworks was one of the largest exhibition of artists' books and ephemera to take place during the 1970s. Comprised of experimental works by approximately six hundred contributors, the exhibition presented a diverse and provocative sampling of this alternative art form."

Artwords is precisely that. Art and words combined to form a fusion of art and literature. Th is work is composed of colorful literary artworks consisting of calligrams, photographs, and redactive poetry. They are different forms of writing which can be both read and appreciated visually. Words have power. Words form images. But what if they formed images you could see with your eyes? Being both an artist and a writer, has led Beatriz Robles to want to create literature that could be seen as artwork as well. Coming from her second book, A Sensual World: What do you see?, the style of writing in Artwords takes it one step further as the writing itself becomes the art. They are one. Artwords is painting with words. It's taking a pair of scissors and making them a little more interesting, transforming it into literary art. And that was the genesis for Artwords- a book for everyone, for art lovers and readers; a book not just for your mind but for your eyes as well. "Th e prose of Bea Robles teases us into thought with its rich layers of meaning. Th e reader will be rewarded with this imaginative combination of illustration and prose. "Danton Remoto, author of Riverrun, on Robles' second book, A Sensual World: What do you see? "Enchanting images systematically embellish the book, serving as unravelling of meanings or purposes." Edgar O. Cruz, Daily Tribune, on Robles' second book, A Sensual World: What do you See? "Robles is not always serious. Her stream-of-consciousness has naughty turns...sections end a la O. Henry. Unexpected...Th e sections are accompanied/depicted with photos which she herself took, including her own paintings." Paul Blanco Zafaralla, Manila Bulletin, on Robles' first book, Life through Letters Her artwork has been described to have a "disarming quality that by turns is soothing, hypnotic, mesmerizing." Gino Dormiendo, Th e Philippine Daily Inquirer

This book examines the use of image and text juxtapositions in conceptual art as a strategy for challenging several ideological and institutional demands placed on art. While conceptual art is generally identified by its use of language, this book makes clear exactly how language was used. In particular, it asks: How has the presence of language in a visual art context changed the ways art is talked about, theorised and produced? Image and Text in Conceptual Art demonstrates how artworks communicate in context and evaluates their critical potential. It discusses international case studies and draws resources from art history and theory, philosophy, discourse analysis, literary criticism and social semiotics. Engaging the critical and social dimensions of art, it proposes three methods of analysis that consider the work’s performative gesture, its logico-semantic relations and the rhetorical operations in the discursive creation of meaning. This book offers a comprehensive method of analysis that can be applied beyond conceptual art.