Librarian Rosemary Furtak: On Artist Books

Rosemary Furtak was the librarian at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis for more than 25 year. She was co-curator of ‘Text Messages’, an exhibit on artist’s books shown in 2009 at the Center. We talk here about her early championing of the artist book genre - her definition being: "a book that refuses to behave like a book ("like the 35,000 books that…