Bold, experimental, extravagant, and unbound, both literally and in the creative minds that produced them, livres d’artiste had no precedent. At the turn of the 20th century, they revolutionized the book as an art form. Livres d’artiste attracted many famous practitioners—Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, and Salvador Dalí among them—but they were also deeply collaborative ventures. Authors, publishers, designers, and printmakers played essential roles in bringing them to life.