This book was incredibly relevant in terms of some of the concepts I've been looking at, the idea of the 'value' of a collection or even a single book in consideration of its 'usefulness'. The way in which a book or library of books, through collected information of history, science, art etc., can provide a form in which this information can be consumed. I love the idea of a book merely being a medium in which to supply information of whatever the readers interest. I guess this kind of pushed my interest in the content of my book being quite a wide set of ideas, I've struggled to find a single physical collection of relevance to my visual practice and am considering the idea of collected information in the form of a book, even it is made up of information from other books. My point is, I'm interested in the form information is supplied in, I'd love to take something as mind numbingly boring to most like mathematics or graphs, nodes, networks, and provide enough visual stimulus for the relevance of this information to speak to say, artists or people who would otherwise find little interest in the particular subject. Because I'm aware that my book will most likely be lacking a great deal of information in my chosen field in comparison to an essay by a science student or professor or mathematician - G.L. Brooks talks of the idea of 'biblia a-biblia', a book thats not a book, a book that is relevant and valuable as part of a collection, it's presence rather than the amount of information contained - this must be admitted by any artist making a book, it is the artists/designers' role to supply the relevant information as the mode of transport, and I think that its fair to say that within the time constraint of this brief it would be difficult for me to thoroughly document any corner of mathematics or science. But I hope what I have time to document enough to form an informative as well as a nice-looking book.
Brook, G.L (1980), Books and Book Collecting, London, Andre Deutsch Limited.
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