At the turn of the 20th century, artist’s books, known as livres d’artiste, were a collaborative form in which a visual artist and a writer conceived a book together, developing image and text in dialogue. The books are now considered art objects themselves. Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, and Salvador Dalí were among the form’s most ambitious practitioners, and the Museum of Fine Arts Boston is now presenting a focused selection that includes Juan Gris and Pierre Reverdy’s Au Soleil du Plafond (1955); and Miró’s Le Lézard aux plumes d’or, with its 40 color lithographs. Dalí’s 1974 illustrations for Sigmund Freud’s Moses and Monotheism is an example of an artist illustrating a foundational text. Resistant to easy categorization, these books are rare and almost never on view. —Elena Clavarino