Günter Grass als Buchkünstler

Günter Grass was not only a writer and visual artist, but also an immensely creative book designer. It was his love of the book as a sensual object that brought him to Steidl Verlag. Right up to his last work, he designed his books here as works of art - from text and image to cover and binding designs, from the types of paper to the design of the typeface. In this volume, all the text-image books Günter Grass created in his years with Steidl are presented in these three dimensions. Unpublished drafts and documents provide insight into his workshop and open up new, fascinating approaches to books from Show Tongue to My Century. They show how Grass makes the letters dance in Grimm's Words and how he designs Vonne Endlichkait as a baroque farewell work. Günter Grass as a book artist casts new, surprising glances at a multifaceted life's work. At the same time, the volume is a bow to Grass the artist - and to the magic of the beautiful book in the digital age.