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A comprehensive resource on artists' publishing.
Contents
Works
Periodicals
- Pre-1945 avant-garde
- Lettrist
- Situationist
- Conceptual
- 0-9, 6 numbers, eds. Bernadette Meyer and Vito Acconci, New York, 1967-1969. Reprint. [1], [2]. FSL. [3], [4], ccindex.
- Art-Language, 19 numbers, eds. Terry Atkinson, David Bainbridge, Michael Baldwin, Harold Hurrell, et al., Coventry, UK: Art & Language Press, 1969-1978. First issue carried the subtitle The Journal of Conceptual Art. Covers, [5], [6].
- Új Symposion, 77+ numbers, eds. Bálint Szombathy (1971-72, 1986-89), László Kerekes (1984-85), et al., Novi Sad: Tribina mladih, [1971]-[1989]. [7], [8], [9], [10], [11]. (Hungarian)
- Index, eds. Slobodan Tišma, Janez Kocijanić, and Mirko Radojičić, Novi Sad, [1969]-[1972]. Student magazine. [12]. (Serbo-Croatian)
- Data, 32 numbers, eds. Tommaso Trini (Castelli) and Ciacia Nicastro, Milan: Prearo, 1971-1978. [13]. [14] (Italian),(English)
- Polja 156: "Konceptualna umetnost", ed. Mirko Radojičić, Novi Sad, Feb 1972. (Serbo-Croatian)
- The Fox, 3 numbers, eds. Sarah Charlesworth, Michael Corns, Preston Heller, Joseph Kosuth, Andrew Menard, Mel Ramsden, and Ian Burn, New York, 1975-1976. ccindex, [15].
- Vision, 5 numbers, ed. Tom Marioni, Oakland, CA: Crown Point Press, 1975-1981. Issue 1. [16], [17], [18].
- Red-herring, 2 numbers, eds. Karl Beveridge, Jill Breakstone, Ian Burn, Carole Conde, Michael Corns, Preston Heller, and Andrew Menard, New York: C.I.F., 1977-1978. ccindex, Allen.
- Mail art
- File, ed. General Idea (AA Bronson, Felix Partz & Jorge Zontal), Toronto, 1972-89.
- Vile, eds. Anna Banana and Bill Gaglione, San Francisco, 1974-83. [19]
- Ephemera: a monthly journal of mail and ephemeral works, 12 issues, eds. Ulises Carrión, Aart van Barneveld and Salvador Flores, Amsterdam: Other Books and So, 1977-78.
- Commonpress, c48 numbers, eds. Pawel Petasz et al., 1977-90. Issues: #1, #3 #5, #6, #8, and many others available via Lomholt Mail Art Archive.
- Umbrella, ed. Judith Hoffberg, 1978-2008. The journal covered news and reviews of artists' books, mail art and contemporary art and photography tradebooks.
- Umbrella: The Anthology, 1978-1998, ed. Judith A. Hoffberg, Santa Monica, CA: Umbrella Editions, 1999, 164 pp.
- PhotoStatic; Retrofuturism; Psrf magazines, 1983-1998.
- Yawn: Art Strike 1990-1993, 45 numbers, 1989-1992.
- Neoist
- The Neo, 10+2 numbers, ed. Monty Cantsin, Montreal, 1979-81. Last two numbers published with the title Organ.
- PhotoStatic, 41 numbers, ed. Lloyd Dunn, Aug 1983-Jan 1993.
- SMILE, ed. Monty Cantsin, Feb 1984-95. [20] [21] [22]
- Retrofuturism, 11+6 numbers, ed. Tape-beatles, Jan 1988-Apr 1993.
- Yawn, 45 numbers, Sep 1989-Mar 1993.
- Re:Action newsletter, 10 numbers, ed. Stewart Home, Winter 1994-Spring 1999.
- Psrf, 2 numbers, ed. Lloyd Dunn, Oct 1997-Oct 1998.
Artists' publications featured on Monoskop Log
Title | Year | Artists | Lang | Tags | |
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Shy Radicals: The Antisystemic Politics of the Militant Introvert | 2017 | Hamja Ahsan | EN | activism, democracy, introversion, politics | |
Emotions Go to Work | 2018 | Zoe Beloff | EN | capitalism, emotion, technology | |
An Exhibition Turned Into an Global Feminist Protest Turned Into a Catalogue | 2018 | Purple Noise | EN | cyberfeminism, feminism, noise, social media, technology | |
Enduring Liveness: An Imaginary Retrospective of Tino Sehgal’s Constructed Situations | 2018 | Annet Dekker | EN | art documentation, performance, performance art | |
Secrets at Mediacity Seoul | 2018 | Sam Hart, Sarah Hamerman | EN | encryption, information, secrecy | |
The Ideal Lecture: In Memory of David Antin | 2018 | Kenneth Goldsmith | EN | affect, appropriation, art, internet, literature, performance, poetics, poetry | |
Katz | 2011 | Ilan Manouach | FR | appropriation, comics, conceptual comics | |
1000 Infrathins | 2018 | Kenneth Goldsmith | EN | aesthetics, infrathin | |
a, A Novel | 2017 | Derek Beaulieu | EN | conceptual writing, uncreative writing, visual poetry | |
Sonic Meditations | 1974 | Pauline Oliveros | EN | listening, sound | |
A Physical Book | 2017 | Liza Daly | EN | book | |
Emilie Comes to Me in a Dream | 1933/1997 | Jindřich Štyrský | EN | collage, dreams, eroticism, sexuality, surrealism | |
Dark Sound | 2016 | Mikel R. Nieto | EU, ES, EN | ecuador, environment, field recording, oil | |
391, 1-19 | 1917-1924 | Francis Picabia | FR | art, avant-garde, dada, poetry | |
薔薇刑 / Killed by Roses | 1963– | Eikoh Hosoe, Yukio Mishima | JP, EN | body, eroticism, photography | |
Bon Ton Mais Non | 2013 | Irena Haiduk | EN | art, manifesto | |
Básne v kresbách | 1930 | Mikuláš Galanda | EN | avant-garde | |
Flash + Cube, 1965-1975 | 2012 | Marget Long | EN | 1960s, light, media technology, photography, vietnam war, war | |
For Publication | 1975 | Dan Graham | EN | conceptual art, mass media | |
Poésie de mots inconnus | 1949 | Iliazd | EN | avant-garde, dada, poetry, sound poetry, visual poetry | |
Silent Movie | 1995 | Chris Marker | EN | cinema, film, film history, silent cinema, silent film | |
Ephemera, 1-12 | 1977-78 | Ulises Carrión, Aart van Barneveld, Salvador Flores | EN | mail art | |
De Ridder Retrospective | 1983 | William Levy, Willem de Ridder | NL, EN | art, fluxus, performance, radio art, theatre | |
1887 – Splendide Hotel | 2014 | Dominique Gonzales-Foerster | FR, EN | 1880s | |
Maj 75, A–L | 1978-84, 1990 | Group of Six Artists | YU | art, conceptual art, new art practice, yugoslavia | |
Journal of the Identical Lunch | 1971 | Alison Knowles | EN | fluxus, food | |
Miss Vietnam | 1969 | Wolf Vostell | EN | art, fluxus, happening | |
Store Days: Documents from The Store, 1961, and Ray Gun Theater, 1962 | 1967 | Claes Oldenburg | EN | art, happening, installation art, performance, performance art, sculpture, theatre | |
Escritas arcaicas | 1991 | Wlademir Dias-Pino | EN | concrete poetry | |
Water Yam | 1963 | George Brecht | EN | fluxus | |
Peintures | 1954 | Yves | EN | art | |
Félicia / par elle-même. Hommage et depassement de Debord | 1976 | FR | detournement, situationists | ||
Wrinkle | 1968 | Liliana Porter | EN | new york graphic workshop | |
12 x 9 | 1967 | Álvaro de Sá | EN | concrete poetry, visual poetry | |
Navilouca: almanaque dos aqua-loucos | 1974 | Torquato Neto, Waly Sailormoon | BR-PT | art, brazil, cinema, concrete art, concrete poetry, counterculture, poetry, tropicalia | |
The Yellow Book | 1978 | Anna Banana | EN | dada, mail art | |
Ler dla canpane | 1948 | Jean Dubuffet | FR | ||
Printed Web | 2014– | Paul Soulellis | EN | art, culture, internet, web | |
Striptease | 1967 | Soňa Švecová | EN | fluxus | |
Aktuální umění, 1-2 | 1964-65 | Aktuální umění | CZ | fluxus | |
JFL: What Does ""Why"" Mean? | 2002 | Octavian Esanu | EN | philosophy of art | |
Un voyage en mer du nord | 1974 | Marcel Broodthaers | EN | book, image, painting | |
Twentysix Gasoline Stations | 1963 | Edward Ruscha | EN | photography | |
Schadenfreude Book Kassel | 2003 | Luchezar Boyadjiev | EN | art, balkans, contemporary art | |
Transpoets | 1989 | Ry Nikonova, B. Constriktor, Serge Segay, A. Nik | RU | avant-garde, collage, poetry, transfurism, zaum | |
Návod k upotřebení | 1969 | Jiří Kolář | CZ | collage, poetry | |
Still Stealing Steel: Historical-Materialist Study of Zaum | 2014 | Sezgin Boynik | EN | futurism, language, poetry, zaum | |
Mémoires | 1958– | Guy Debord, Asger Jorn | FR, EN | situationists | |
Theory | 2015 | Kenneth Goldsmith | EN, FR | language, literature, poetics, poetry, theory, writing | |
Gas Tanks | 1993 | Bernd & Hilla Becher | EN | architecture, art, conceptual art, gas, industrial architecture, photography | |
La Prose du Transsibérien et de la petite Jehanne de France | 1913 | Blaise Cendrars, Sonia Delaunay-Terk | FR, EN | abstract art, avant-garde, poetry | |
Descriptions of Literature | 1926 | Gertrude Stein | EN | book, literature | |
Sex | 1992 | Madonna | EN | body, nudity, photography, popular culture, sex, sexuality | |
Critical Making | 2012 | Garnet Hertz | EN | 3d printing, art, contemporary art, critical making, design, diy, diy biology, engineering | |
Die Scheuche: Märchen / The Scarecrow: A Fairytale | 1925– | Kurt Schwitters, Käte Steinitz, Theo van Doesburg | DE, EN, ES | dada, de stijl, graphic design, typography | |
Die träumenden Knaben / The Dreaming Youths | 1908/1917 | Oskar Kokoschka | DE | art, dreams, jugendstil, poetry, psychoanalysis, sexuality | |
Klänge / Sounds | 1913– | Wassily Kandinsky | DE, EN | art, avant-garde, poetry, sound | |
Echte Wagner Margarine, Album 3, Serie 12-13: Zukunftsfantasien | 1930 | communication technology, science fiction, television, transport | |||
Die Kunstismen / Les Ismes De L’Art / The Isms of Art: 1914–1924 | 1925 | El Lissitzky, Hans Arp | DE, FR, EN | 1910s, 1920s, architecture, art, art history, avant-garde, film | |
Piedigrotta: Manifesto on the Dynamic and Synoptic Declamation | 1916 | Francesco Cangiullo | IT | futurism, poetry, visual poetry | |
Abeceda | 1926 | Vítězslav Nezval | CZ | alphabet, avant-garde, dance, photography, poetry, typography | |
X: Writings '78-'82 | 1983 | John Cage | EN | ||
Empty Words: Writings '73-'78 | 1979 | John Cage | EN | ||
M: Writings '67-'72 | 1973 | John Cage | EN | ||
Diagrammatic Writing | 2013 | Johanna Drucker | EN | book, text, writing | |
Fantastic Architecture | 1971 | Wolf Vostell, Dick Higgins (eds.) | EN | architecture, art, city, collage, fluxus, manifesto | |
As Is When | 1965 | Eduardo Paolozzi | EN | machine, pop art | |
The Aulos-girl Papers | 2013 | Heidi Gustafson | EN | philosophy | |
Artist's Diary 2003 | 2003 | Heath Bunting | EN | ||
Coyote | 1976/2008 | Joseph Beuys | EN | art, performance art, photography | |
Le-Dantyu as a Beacon | 1923 | Ilya Zdanevich (Iliazd) | RU | dada, futurism, poetry, typography, visual poetry, zaum | |
Some French Moderns Says McBride | 1922 | Rrose Sélavy (Marcel Duchamp) | EN | art criticism | |
Book of Typewriter Art (with special computer program) | 1982 | Bob Neill | EN | typewriter | |
Tango With Cows: Ferro-Concrete Poems | 1914 | Vasily Kamensky | RU | concrete poetry, cubo-futurism, futurism, poetry, typography, visual poetry | |
Flux Year Box 2 | 1965-1968 | George Maciunas | EN | art, fluxus | |
For the Voice | 1923 | Vladimir Mayakovsky, El Lissitzky | RU | avant-garde, constructivism, graphic design, poetry, typography | |
The Book of Breeething | 1974/1975 | William S. Burroughs | EN | ||
Code Poems from The International Code of Signals for the Use of All Nations | 1982 | Hannah Weiner | EN | code, communication, poetry | |
Oddities of Various Figures | 1624 | Giovanni Battista Braccelli | |||
Ray Johnson Ray Johnson | 1977 | Ray Johnson | EN | art, art criticism, mail art | |
Light Transformer Prototype, v. 1–2 | 2010-2012 | Adrien Lucca | FR, EN | colour, design, light, mathematics | |
Diff in June | 2013 | Martin Howse | EN | archive, data, language | |
History of the/my Wor(l)d | 1990 | Johanna Drucker | EN | feminism, history, memory | |
Soviet Erotic Alphabet | 1931 | Sergey Merkurov | alphabet, art, sex | ||
Xerox Book | 1968 | Seth Siegelaub, John W. Wendler (eds.) | EN | art, conceptual art | |
Un coup de Dés jamais n’abolira le Hasard | 1969 | Marcel Broodthaers | FR | poetry | |
Teaching and Learning as Performing Arts / Lehren und Lernen als Auffuehrungskuenste | 1970– | Robert Filliou, et al. | EN, DE, FR | art, art education, education, fluxus, pedagogy, performance art | |
Fin de Copenhague | 1957 | Asger Jorn, Guy Debord | situationists | ||
Fish Story | 1995/2002 | Allan Sekula | EN | capitalism, photography | |
A Bestiary of Spam Characters | 2013 | André Castro, Silvio Lorusso | EN | spam | |
Ray Johnson, Ray Johnson, Ray Johnson | 1978 | John Willenbecher | EN | mail art | |
Four Basic Kinds of Straight Lines | 1969 | Sol LeWitt | EN | art, conceptual art | |
Afronauts | 2012 | Cristina De Middel | EN | africa, documentary, photography, space race, zambia | |
Grapefruit: A Book of Instructions and Drawings by Yoko Ono | 1964- | Yoko Ono | EN, ES, PT | art, conceptual art, poetry | |
Screen Tests / A Diary | 1967 | Gerard Malanga, Andy Warhol | EN | film, photography | |
Failed States | 2012 | Jill Magid | EN | military, secrecy, transparency | |
Violence Sonata / The History of Violence in America | 1969-1970 | Stan VanDerBeek | EN | art, collage, education, machine, mass media, media, participation, performance | |
NovaText | 1990 | Critical Art Ensemble | EN | criticism, poetry, text | |
TYT (Take Your Time), 1: Small Spatial Experiments | 2007 | Olafur Eliasson | EN | art, environment, installation art, sculpture, space | |
56 Broken Kindle Screens | 2012 | Silvio Lorusso, Sebastian Schmieg | EN | book, e-book, glitch | |
The SKOR Codex | 2012 | La Société Anonyme | archive, archiving, art, code, data, digital heritage, media art, preservation | ||
Photo Grids | 1977 | Sol LeWitt | art, conceptual art, grid, minimal art | ||
The Intention | 2008 | Marta De Gonzalo, Publio Pérez Prieto | EN | art, art education, education | |
Wohlgemeynte Gedanken über den Dannemarks-Gesundbrunnen | 1751/2008 | error, glitch, scanning | |||
An Anthology of Chance Operations | 1963 | La Monte Young, Jackson Mac Law (eds.) | EN | art, avant-garde, conceptual art, fluxus, music, poetry | |
Aluminium. Beauty, Incorruptibility, Lightness and Abundance, The Metal of the Future | 2008 | Graham Harwood | EN | history of technology, industry, technology, video | |
Some Ideas About Surfing | 2010 | jcolover | EN | internet, surfing | |
D.I.Y. Satellite | 2009 | Song hojun | EN, KO | diy, hardware, open source, software, space | |
A Collection of Google Street Views | 2008– | Jon Rafman | EN | art, google, photography, surveillance | |
XYM | 2009 | Marlie Mul, Yngve Holen | EN | art |
Anthologies, sourcebooks
- Artists' Books: A Critical Anthology and Sourcebook, ed. Joan Lyons, Rochester, NY: Visual Studies Workshop, and Layton, UT: Peregrine Smith Books, 1985, 272 pp, TOC, TOC; new ed. as Artists' Books: A Critical Anthology and Sourcebook, A Digested Edition, Rochester, NY: Visual Studies Workshop, 1985, 68 pp. (English)
- Magazine, ed. Gwen Allen, London: Whitechapel Gallery (Documents of Contemporary Art), and MIT Press, 2016, 237 pp. TOC. Publisher. Publisher. (English)
Artists, scholars, initiatives
- Artpool
- Banner Repeater
- Dušan Barok
- Beau Geste Press
- Bebe Books
- Delphine Bedel
- Manetta Berends
- Sarah Bodman
- Boekie Woekie
- Franziska Brandt
- Simon Browne
- Ulises Carrión
- Center for Book Arts
- Ami Clarke
- Constant
- Florian Cramer
- Karen Di Franco
- Display Distribute
- Johanna Drucker
- Felipe Ehrenberg
- Esoteric.codes
- Olle Essvik
- Franklin Furnace
- Mela Dávila Freire
- Michael Gibbs
- Annette Gilbert
- Gloria Glitzer
- Kenneth Goldsmith
- Moritz Grünke
- Guttormsgaards arkiv
- Mikhail Karasik
- Leandro Katz
- Rebekka Kiesewetter
- J.H. Kocman
- Antoine Lefebvre
- Lucy R. Lippard
- Silvio Lorusso
- Alessandro Ludovico
- Aymeric Mansoux
- Nancy Mauro-Flude
- Monoskop
- Kristen Mueller
- Michael Murtaugh
- OHO
- OSP
- Other Books and So
- Page Not Found
- Clive Phillpot
- Ellef Prestsæter
- Printed Matter
- PrintRoom
- Roma Publications
- Ed Ruscha
- Guy Schraenen
- David Senior
- Femke Snelting
- Nick Thurston
- Torpedo
- UbuWeb
- Varia
- Eva Weinmayr
- XPUB
Collections, archives
- Archive Artist Publications, by Hubert Kretschmer, Munich.
- Centre for Artists' Publications, Weserburg, Bremen.
- Franklin Furnace Artists' Books Collection, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY.
- John M. Flaxman Library: Joan Flasch Artists' Book Collection, at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC).
- Library of the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.
- MoMA Library, New York. [23]
- mumok reference library, museum moderner kunst (mumok) Vienna.
- National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa.
- Smithsonian Libraries, Washington, DC.
- Stedelijk Museum library, Amsterdam.
- Tate Library and Archive, London.
- Thomas J. Watson Library, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Online repositories
- Artists' books on Monoskop Log
- Artists' Books Online, an online repository of facsimiles, metadata, and criticism. Director: Johanna Drucker, project manager: Eric Rettberg.
- Post-Digital Publishing Archive, Projects and Artworks at the Intersection of Publishing and Digital Technology. Maintained by Silvio Lorusso.
- La Bibliothèque Fantastique, an artist’s books virtual publisher. Ed. Antoine Lefebvre.
- Booknesses: Artists' Books From the Jack Ginsberg Collection. Contents.
Resources
- Kunstenaarsboeken (artists' books) uit Nederland en België deel 1: de jaren '70 en '80, blog. (Dutch)
- The Expansion of the Artist Book, 1960-1980, Archivo Lafuente. (English)/(Spanish)
- Transforming Artist Books, research project, Tate, 2012.
- What Is an Artist Book?, curated by Giorgio Maffei, Palacete del Embarcadero, Santander, Aug 2014-Jan 2015.
- Livro de Artista, blog about the collection at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil.
- What will be the canon for the artist’s book in the 21st Century?, a research project by the University of the West of England, 2008-10.
- Collecting Books: A conceptual snapshot of the arts in book form. Austrian art books and artists’ books selected by Bernhard Cella.
- Artzines, an online database for zines created and self-published by contemporary artists. Edited by Antoine Lefebvre.
- Artzines.net, blog on artists’ publications by Moritz Grünke.
- Artists' Books & Multiples, blog by Dave Dyment.
- Artists' Books in South Africa, ed. David Paton, est. 2006. Feat. Database of South African Artists' Books.
- tumblr of the MoMA Library staff.
- Das Kunstbuch blog by Marlene Obermayer.
- more, more
Literature
Selected essays
- Stéphane Mallarmé, "The Book, Spiritual Instrument" [c1898], trans. Michael Gibbs, New Wilderness Letter 11, Dec 1982, pp 1-5. (English)
- El Lissitzky, "Unser Buch", in Gutenberg Jahrbuch 1927, ed. Alois Ruppel, Mainz: Gutenberg-Gesellschaft, 1926-27. (German)
- "The Future of the Book", New Left Review 41, Jan-Feb 1967, pp 39-44. (English)
- "Our Book", trans. Helene Aldwinckle and Mary Whittall, in Lissitzky-Küppers, El Lissitzky, 1968; repr. in Graphic Design Theory: Readings From the Field, ed. Helen Armstrong, Princeton, 2009, pp 25-31. (English)
- Ulises Carrión, "El arte nuevo de hacer libros", Plural (literary supplement in newspaper Excélsior) 4:41, México, Feb 1975, pp 33-38. Written in Amsterdam in May 1974. [24] (Spanish)
- "The New Art of Making Books", Kontexts 6-7, Maastricht, 1975; repr. in Contents, Warsaw: Remont Gallery, 1976; repr. in Art Contemporary 3:1, San Francisco, 1977; repr. in Carrión, Second Thoughts, Amsterdam: VOID, 1980; repr. in Artists' Books: A Critical Anthology and Sourcebook, ed. Lyons, 1985; repr. in Ulises Carrion: We have won! Haven’t we?, ed. Guy Schraenen, Amsterdam: Fodor Museum, 1992. (English)
- more translations
- Lucy R. Lippard, "The Artist's Book Goes Public", Art in America, Jan-Feb 1977; repr. in Lippard, Get the Message? A Decade of Art for Social Change, E.P. Dutton, 1984, pp 48-52; repr. in Artists' Books: A Critical Anthology and Sourcebook, ed. Lyons, 1985, pp 45-48. (English)
- Clive Phillpot, "Recent Art and the Book Form", in Artists' Books: From the Traditional to the Avant-Garde, New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1982. (English)
- Richard Kostelanetz, "Book Art", in Artists' Books: A Critical Anthology and Sourcebook, ed. Lyons, 1985, pp 27-30, HTML. (English)
- Lucy R. Lippard, "Conspicuous Consumption: New Artists' Books", in Artists' Books: A Critical Anthology and Sourcebook, ed. Lyons, 1985, pp 49-59. (English)
- Shelley Rice, "Words and Images: Artists' Books as Visual Literature", in Artists' Books: A Critical Anthology and Sourcebook, ed. Lyons, 1985, pp 59-85. (English)
- Barbara Moore, Jon Hendricks, "The Page as Alternative Space: 1950 to 1969", in Artists' Books: A Critical Anthology and Sourcebook, ed. Lyons, 1985, pp 87-95. (English)
- Clive Phillpot, "Some Contemporary Artists and Their Books", in Artists' Books: A Critical Anthology and Sourcebook, ed. Lyons, 1985, pp 97-132. (English)
- Robert C. Morgan, "Systemic Books by Artists", in Artists' Books: A Critical Anthology and Sourcebook, ed. Lyons, 1985, pp 207-222. (English)
- Clive Phillpot, "Reading Artists' Books", in The Arts of the Book, Philadelphia: University of the Arts, 1988, pp 5-7. (English)
- Johanna Drucker, "The Self-Conscious Codex: Artists' Books and Electronic Media", SubStance 26(1): "Metamorphoses of the Book", 1997, pp 93-112. (English)
- Duncan Chappell, "Typologising the Artist's Book", Art Libraries 28:4 (2003), pp 12-20. (English)
- Johanna Drucker, "The Artist's Book as an Agent of Social Change", in Drucker, The Century of Artists' Books, 2nd ed., New York: Granary Books, 2004, pp 287-308. (English)
- Kathleen Walkup, "Books in a New Language", in From Site to Vision: The Woman’s Building in Contemporary Culture, eds. Sondra Hale and Terry Wolverton, Los Angeles: Otis College of Art and Design, 2011, pp 266-299. (English)
- Tony White, "From Democratic Multiple to Artist Publishing: The (R)evolutionary Artist's Book", Art Documentation 31:1, Spring 2012, pp 45-56. (English)
- Janneke Adema, Gary Hall, "The Political Nature of the Book: On Artists' Books and Radical Open Access", New Formations 78:1, 2013, pp 138-156. [25] [26] (English)
- Tony White, "The Evolution of Artists’ Publishing", Art Documentation 33:2 (Sep 2014), pp 227-242. (English)
- Amanda C.R. Clark, "Contemporary Chinese Artists' Books: New Artistic Voices in a Time of Transition", Art Documentation 34:1, Spring 2015, pp 15-28. (English)
- Display Distribute, "The Semi-Autonomous Zine: Charting Margins and Peripheries in Independent Publishing", Asia Art Archive, 2 Aug 2018. (English)
Readers
- Artists' Books: A Critical Anthology and Sourcebook, ed. Joan Lyons, Rochester, NY: Visual Studies Workshop, and Layton, UT: Peregrine Smith Books, 1985, 272 pp, TOC, TOC; new ed. as Artists' Books: A Critical Anthology and Sourcebook, A Digested Edition, Rochester, NY: Visual Studies Workshop, 1985, 68 pp. (English)
- Everything in the World: A Book Arts Reader, ed. Harry Reese, 2007. For an UCSB class.
- Magazine, ed. Gwen Allen, London: Whitechapel Gallery (Documents of Contemporary Art), and MIT Press, 2016, 237 pp. TOC. Publisher. Publisher. (English)
Books, dissertations
- Susan Compton, World Backwards: Russian Futurist Book 1912-1916, London: British Library, 1978, 136 pp. (English)
- Llibres d'artista / Artists' Books, ed. Tous i Giner Rafael, trans. Glòria Picazo, Barcelona: Metroǹom, 1981. (Catalan)/(English)
- François Chapon, Le Peintre et le livre: l'age d'or du livre illustré en France 1870-1970, Paris: Flammarion, 1987. (French)
- Silvie Turner (ed.), Facing the Page: British Artists' Books: A Survey 1983-1993, London: Estamp, 1993, 87 pp. (English)
- Johanna Drucker, The Century of Artists’ Books, New York: Granary Books, 1995, xii+377 pp; 2nd ed., 2004, 377 pp. Review: Haskell (SubStance). (English)
- Stephen Bury, Artists’ Books: the Book as a Work of Art, 1963-1995, Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1995, 223 pp; new ed., London: Bernard Quaritch, 2015, 258 pp. Reviews: Markovich (Art Doc), Rossman (Art Lib J), Vincler (Bib Soc Am). (English)
- Charles Alexander (ed.), Talking the Boundless Book: Art, Language, & the Book Arts, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, 1995, 144 pp. (English)
- Cathy Courtney, Private Views & Other Containers: Artists Books Reviewed by Cathy Courtney for "Art Monthly": 100 Articles, 1983-1995, London: Estamp, 1995, 156 pp. (English)
- Anne Moeglin-Delcroix, Esthétique du livre d'artiste: 1960/1980, Paris: Jean-Michel Place, and Bibliothèque nationale de France, 1997, 389 pp; new ed. as Esthétique du livre d'artiste: une introduction à l'art contemporain, Marseille: Le mot et le reste, and Paris: Bibliothèque nationale de France, 2012, xxi+443 pp. [27], [28], [29]. Reviews: Poulain (BBF), Hermange (Etudes Photo). (French)
- Stefan Klima, Artists Books: A Critical Survey of the Literature, New York: Granary Books, 1998, 104 pp. Excerpt, [30]. (English)
- Cathy Courtney, Speaking of Book Art: Interviews With British & American Book Artists, Los Altos Hills, CA: Anderson-Lovelace, 1999, ix+241 pp. [31] (English)
- Renée Riese Hubert, Judd D. Hubert, The Cutting Edge of Reading: Artists’ Books, New York: Granary Books, 1999, 280 pp. [32] (English)
- Jaroslav Andel, Avant Garde Book Design, 1900-1950, New York: Delano Greenidge, 2002, 388 pp. Review: Margolin (DI 2003). (English)
- Rob Perrée, Cover to Cover: The Artist's Book in Perspective, Rotterdam: NAi Publishers, 2002. (English)
- Maria Fusco, Ian Hunt (eds.), Put About: A Critical Anthology on Independent Publishing, London: Book Works, 2004, 194 pp. TOC. [33] (English)
- Anne Moeglin-Delcroix, Sur le livre d'artiste: articles et écrits de circonstance (1981-2005), Marseille: Le mot et le reste, 2006, 588 pp. Review: Corbel (Perspective). (French)
- Yves Jolivet (ed.), Le livre et l'artiste, Marseille: Le mot et le reste, 2007, 224 pp. Based on a colloquium in Marseille, 2007. Review: Corbel (Perspective). (French)
- In Numbers: Serial Publications by Artists Since 1955, eds. Philip E Aarons and Andrew Roth, Zurich: jrp|ringier, and New York: PPP Editions, 2009, 440 pp. With contributions by Gil Blank, Victor Brand, Clive Philpot, Nancy Princethal, Neville Wakefield, and William S. Wilson. Publisher. Exhibition at ICA (2012). Review: Dyment (Magenta). (English)
- Sarah Bodman, Tom Sowden, A Manifesto for the Book, Bristol: Impact Press, 2010, 185 pp. (English)
- Gwen Allen, Artists' Magazines: An Alternative Space for Art, MIT Press, 2011, 300 pp. (English)
- Garrett Stewart, Bookwork: Medium to Object to Concept to Art, University of Chicago Press, 2011, 249 pp. (English)
- Anna Sigrídur Arnar, The Book as Instrument: Stéphane Mallarmé, The Artist's Book, and the Transformation of Print Culture, University of Chicago Press, 2011, xi+395 pp. [34] [35]. Reviews: Salsbury (AiP 2012), Roos (CAA 2012), Norrick-Rühl (PRQ 2012), Wiedenfeld (MLN 2013), Abbott (H-France 2013), Palermo (AB 2013), Melot (BBF 2013 FR). (English)
- Bernhard Cella, Collecting Books: A Selection of Recent Art and Artists' Books Produced in Austria, Bernhard Cella / Hotel Ostblick, 2012, 150 pp. [36] [37] (English)
- Amir Brito Cadôr, Enciclopedismo em Livros de Artista: um manual de construção da Enciclopédia Visual, Belo Horizonte: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), 2012, 557 pp. PhD dissertation. (Brazilian Portuguese)
- Jérôme Dupeyrat, Les livres d’artistes entre pratiques alternatives à l’exposition et pratiques d’exposition alternatives, Rennes: Université Rennes 2, 2012, 579 pp. PhD dissertation. (French)
- Clive Phillpot, Booktrek: Selected Essays on Artists' Books (1972-2010), ed. Lionel Bovier, Zurich: JRP Ringier, 2013, 286 pp. [38] (English)
- Danske kunstnerbøger / Danish Artists' Books, eds. Thomas Hvid Kromann, Louise Hold Sidenius, Maria Kjær Themsen and Marianne Vierø, Copenhagen: Møller, and Cologne: Walther König, 2013, 300 pp. (Danish)/(English)
- Annette Gilbert (ed.): Reprint: Appropriation (&) Literature, Wiesbaden: Lux Books, 2014, 580 pp. [39] (English)
- Antoine Lefebvre, Portrait de l'artiste en éditeur, L'édition comme pratique artistique alternative, Paris: Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, 2014, 760 pp. PhD dissertation. (French)
- Anne Mœglin-Delcroix, Leszek Brogwoski (eds.), Livre d'artiste: quels projets pour l'art?, Rennes: Incertain Sens, 2014, 304 pp. [40]. Review: Chevalier (Critique d'art). (French)
- Albert Coers, Kunstkatalog—Katalogkunst. Der Ausstellungskatalog als künstlerisches Medium am Beispiel von Thomas Demand, Tobias Rehberger und Olafur Eliasson, Berlin: De Gruyter, 2015. (German)
- The Art of Collaboration: Poets, Artists, Books, eds. Anca Cristofovici and Barbara Montefalcone, Cuneiform Press, 2015, 198 pp. Based on the symposium ‘'Collaboration and the Artist’s Book: a Transatlantic Perspective held at the University of Caen, France, March-April 2011. [41] (English)
- Anne Moeglin-Delcroix, Ambulo ergo sum. Nature as Experience in Artists' Books / L'expérience de la nature dans le livre d'artiste, Cologne: Walther König, 2016, 96 pp. [42] (English)/(French)
- Annette Gilbert (ed.), Publishing as Artistic Practice, Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2016, 304 pp. TOC, Weinmayr's essay. Workshop. [43] (English)
- Nicholas Thoburn, Anti-Book: On the Art and Politics of Radical Publishing, University of Minnesota Press, 2016, xvi+372 pp. (English)
- Nancy Perloff, Explodity: Sound, Image, and Word in Russian Futurist Book Art, Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2016, 208 pp. Online companion. [44] (English)
- Kathryn Brown, Matisse’s Poets: Critical Performance in the Artist’s Book, Bloomsbury Academic, 2017. (English)
- Andrew Roth, Philip E. Aarons, Claire Lehmann (eds.), Artists Who Make Books, London: Phaidon, and New York: PPP Editions, 2017, 336 pp. Survey of 32 artists. [45]
- Jérôme Dupeyrat, Entretiens: perspectives contemporaines sur les publications d'artistes, Rennes: Incertain Sens, 2017, 312 pp. [46] (French)
- Lucy Mulroney, Andy Warhol, Publisher, University of Chicago Press, 2018, 193 pp.
- Freedom of the Presses: Artists' Books in the 21st Century, Brooklyn, NY: Booklyn, 2018. [47] (English)
Periodicals
- The Journal of Artists' Books, ed. Brad Freeman, since 1994. [48] (English)
- Book Arts Newsletter, ed. Sarah Bodman, since 2002. Every four-six weeks. (English)
- The Blue Notebook: Journal for Artists' Books, since 2006. [49] (English)
Journal issues
- Art Documentation 1(6): "An ABC of Artists’ Books Collections", ed. Clive Phillpot, ARLIS/NA, Dec 1982, 13 pp. Special section of the journal. (English)
- Visible Language 25(2-3): "The Artist’s Book: The Text and Its Rivals", ed. Renée Riese Hubert, Apr 1991. (English)
- Art Libraries 32(2): "Artists' ́Books", 2007. Abstracts. (English)
- Nouvelle revue d'esthétique 2: "Livres d'artistes: l’esprit de réseau", eds. Leszek Brogowski and Anne Moeglin-Delcroix, Oct 2008, 160 pp. Based on a colloquium in Rennes, 2003. Review: Corbel (Perspective). (French)
- Art Libraries 38(3): "Artists' ́Publications", 2013. Abstracts. (English)
- La Trobe Journal 95: "Creating and Collecting Artists' Books in Australia", eds. Des Cowley, Robert Heather and Anna Welch, Melbourne: State Library Victoria, 2015. (English)
Exhibition catalogues
- Modern Painters and Sculptors as Illustrators, ed. Monroe Wheeler, New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1936, 128 pp. Exh. held at MoMA, 27 Apr-2 Sep 1936. (English)
- Artists Books, ed. & forew. Dianne Vanderlip, Philadelphia: Moore College of Art, 1973, 77 pp. With essays by Lynn Lester Hershman and John Perreault. Exh. held at Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, 23 Mar-20 Apr 1973; University Art Museum, U California, Berkeley, 16 Jan-24 Feb 1974. The first major exhibition of artists’ books in the United States. (English)
- Le Livre et l'artiste: tendances du livre illustré français, 1967-1976, ed. Antoine Coron, Paris: Bibliothèque nationale de France, 1977, 151 pp. Exh. held from 24 Jun-11 Sep 1977. [50] (French)
- Artists' Books: From the Traditional to the Avant-Garde, New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1982, [52] pp. With text by Clive Phillpot. Exh. held at Archibald Stevens Alexander Library, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 16 Feb-16 Apr 1982. Exh. & symposium report. (English)
- British Artists' Books, 1970-1983: An Exhibition, eds. Silvie Turner and Ian Tyson, London: Lund Humphries, 1984. (English)
- From Manet to Hockney: Modern Artists' Illustrated Books, eds. Carol Hogben and Rowan Watson, London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1985. (English)
- Tendências do livro de artista no Brazil, eds. & intro. Annateresa Fabris and Cacilda Teixeira da Costa, São Paulo: Centro Cultural São Paulo, 1985, 18 pp. Exh. held 16 May-23 Jun 1985. (Brazilian Portuguese)
- Livres d'artistes, ed. Anne Moeglin-Delcroix, Paris: Centre Pompidou & Herscher, 1985. Exh. held Jun-Oct 1985. [51] (French)
- Audrey Isselbacher, Iliazd and the Illustrated Book, New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1987, 85 pp. [52] (English)
- The Arts of the Book: a Project Devoted to an Appreciation of 20th Century Book Arts, forew. Ed Colker, intro. Eleni Cocordas, Philadelphia: University of the Arts, 1988, 20 pp. Exh. held at the Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, Haviland Hall and Arronson Gallery, Philadelphia College of Art and Design, 9 Sep-15 Oct 1988. (English)
- The Avant-Garde Book: 1900-1945, ed. Jaroslav Andel, intro. Martha Wilson, New York: Franklin Furnace Archive, 1989, 68 pp. [53] (English)
- Ralph Jentsch, The Artist and the Book in Twentieth-Century Italy, Turin: Umberto Allemandi, and New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1992, 341 pp. [54] (English)
- Riva Castleman, A Century of Artists Books, New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1994, 263 pp. [55]. Review: Haskell (SubStance). (English)
- Artist/Author: Contemporary Artists' Books, eds. Cornelia Lauf and Clive Phillpot, New York: Art Publishers, 1998. (English)
- The Journal of Artists' Books 12: "Experimental Narrative and Artists' Books", ed. Johanna Drucker, Fall 1999, 32 pp, JPGs. (English)
- Artists’ Books in the Ginsberg Collection, with some South African Books from Other Collections, eds. Jack M. Ginsberg and David M. Paton, Johannesburg, 1996. Exh. held at Johannesburg Art Gallery, 25 Aug-27 Oct 1996. (English)
- Livres d’artistes, l’invention d’un genre: 1960-1980, ed. Anne Mœglin-Delcroix, Paris: Bibliothèque nationale de France, 1997, 48 pp. Exh. held from 25 May-12 Nov 1997. [56] (French)
- The Journal of Artists' Books 15: "Book Unbound", ed. Cathy Byrd, Spring 2001, JPGs.
- Guy Schraenen, Out of Print: An Archive as Artistic Concept, Bremen: Neues Museum Weserburg, 2001, 255 pp. Selection of 700 works and documents drawn from the Archive for Small Press & Communication (ASPC) founded by Anner Marsily and Guy Schraenen in 1974. [57] (English)
- Margit Rowell, Deborah Wye, The Russian Avant-Garde Book, 1910-1934, New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2002, 304 pp. Online companion. [58] (English)
- El libro ruso de vanguardia, 1910-1934, New York: Museum of Modern Art, and Madrid: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, 2003, 304 pp. (Spanish)
- Matthias Herrmann, Artists' Books, Revisited, Toronto: Art Metropole, 2005, 72 pp. [59] (English)
- David Paton, Navigating the Bookscape: Artists' Books and the Digital Interface, forew. Jack Ginsberg, Johannesburg, 2006, 39 pp, HTML. Exh. held at Aardklop Arts Festival, Potchefstroom, South Africa, 25-30 Sep 2006; FADA Gallery, University of Johannesburg, South Africa, 5-13 Oct 2006. (English)
- Guy Schraenen, Un coup de livres (una tirada de libros). Libros de artista y otras publicaciones del Archive for Small Press & Communication. Artists' Books and other Publications from the Archive for Small Press & Communication, Madrid: Fundación Juan March, 2010, 133+44 pp. [60] (Spanish)/(English)
- Thanks for Sharing! Artzine Exhibition and Symposium, ed. Regine Ehleiter, Leipzig: D21 Kunstraum, 2010, 62 pp. (English),(German)
- I hate Paul Klee. Papierarbeiten und Künstlerbücher aus der Sammlung Speck, eds. Renate Goldmann, et al., Cologne, 2011. Exh. held at Leopold-Hoesch-Museum & Papiermuseum Düren. (German)
- TEXTures: An Exhibition of Texts, Textures and Structure in Artists' Books, eds. Jack Ginsberg, David Paton and Rosalind Cleaver, 2014, 27 pp, HTML. Exh. held at Library and Information Centre, Doornfontein Campus, University of Johannesburg, 5 Mar-18 Apr 2014. (English)
- An Encyclopedia of Everything, ed. Cheryl Penn, Durban, 2014, 228 pp. Exh. held at Park Contemporary Gallery, KZNSA, Durban, 7-26 Oct 2014. (English)
- Sequence 1: Dutch Artist's Books in International Perspective, Groningen: Minerva Art Academy, 2015, 57 pp. Exh. held in the Koepelzaal of Academie Minerva, Groningen. (English)
- Tendências do livro de artista no Brazil: 30 anos depois, eds. Amir Brito Cador and Paulo Silveira, São Paulo: Centro Cultural São Paulo, 2015, 14 pp. Exh. held 28 Nov 2015-20 Mar 2016. (Brazilian Portuguese)
- Monoskop Exhibition Library, ed. Dušan Barok, Amsterdam: Monoskop, and Seoul: The Book Society, 2018, 47 pp. Exh. held as part of the Seoul Mediacity Biennale, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, 5 Sep-18 Nov 2018. (English)/(Korean)
Film documentaries
- Art ex Libris Video: The Book Art Invitational at Artspace, dir. Mitzi Humphrey, 1994, 62 min. Documentary of the 1994 exhibition at Artspace Gallery, Richmond, Virginia. [61]
Bibliography
- Reading list for artists’ books, compiled from books held in the library at Bower Ashton, UWE Bristol and the Centre for Fine Print Research
Recent exhibitions
See also exhibition catalogues above.
- Elements and Unknowns, Museum of Modern Art, New York, Sep-Nov 2008. Organised by May Castleberry. [62]
- Millennium Magazines, Museum of Modern Art, New York, Feb-May 2012. Organised by Rachael Morrison and David Senior. [63]
- Diamond Leaves:Brilliant Artist Books from Around the World, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, 2012. Curated by Xu Bing and Marshall Weber. [64]
- Reading List: Artists' Selections from the MoMA Library Collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York, Sep 2013-Jan 2014. Organised by Rachael Morrison and Lori Salmon. [65]
- Artist/Novelist, Museum of Modern Art, New York, Jan-Mar 2014. Organised by Jennifer Tobias. [66]
- It is not new, it is a book, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Sep 2014-May 2015. Curated by Guy Schraenen.
- I call them simply books, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, May-Oct 2015. Curated by Guy Schraenen.
- More than a catalogue: The catalogue-boxes of the Museum Abteiberg-Mönchengladbach (1967-1978), Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Oct 2015-Apr 2016. Curated by Guy Schraenen.
- The Electro-Library: European Avant-Garde Magazines from the 1920s, Museum of Modern Art, New York, Mar-Jun 2016. Curated by David Senior.
- Back in Time with Time-Based Works: Artists' Books at Franklin Furnace, 1976–1980, Museum of Modern Art, New York, Sep 2016-Jan 2017. Curated by Martha Wilson, Michael Katchen and David Senior.
- I Am Also not a Book, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Sep 2016-May 2017. Curated by Guy Schraenen.
- Concrete Poetry, Concrete Book: Artists' Books in German-Speaking Space after 1945, University of Chicago Library, Jan-Mar 2017.
- Artists' Books for Everything, Center for Artists' Publications, Weserburg, Bremen, Jun-Aug 2017. Curated by Anne Thurmann-Jajes and Bettina Brach. Organised in collaboration with the University of Bremen.
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