Richard Minsky is the foremost exponent of contemporary book art in the US, whose works have “revolutionised the way we see books.” He has said that book artists are, for the most part, collaborators. Unlike garret artists, book people are usually dependent on working with a team to make a book. A single book can involve a writer, illustrator, papermaker, typographer, printer and binder. In Book Art the container works with the content. The materials are tactile and often relate to the metaphor of the text. In some cases there is no written text. The book is then a purely visual, totemic or iconographic work in which the image, structure and materials are the content. The physical presence of a book, its feeling and smell, its weight, the process of moving through its pages or unfolding it speak to our deepest inner sensibilities. The very form speaks of knowledge preserved and communicated. It represents our ability to build on complex ideas which survive millennia beyond the cultures which created them.