Artists publishing

Archives

• Archive Artist Publi­ca­ti­ons, by Hubert Kret­sch­mer, Munich.

Online repositories

• Artists' books on Monoskop Log
• Artists' books of the Russian avant-garde
• Fluxus#Works
• 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.
• 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.

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)
• What Is an Artist Book?, curated by Giorgio Maffei, Palacete del Embarcadero, Santander, Aug 2014-Jan 2015.

Literature

• 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)

• The Journal of Artists' Books, ed. Brad Freeman, since 1994.
  • The Journal of Artists' Books 12: "Experimental Narrative and Artists' Books", ed. Johanna Drucker, Fall 1999. Exhibition catalogue.
  • The Journal of Artists' Books 15: "Book Unbound", ed. Cathy Byrd, Spring 2001. Exhibition catalogue.
• Johanna Drucker, The Century of Artists’ Books, New York: Granary Books, 1995; 2nd ed., 2004, 377 pp. [1] [2]
• Stefan Klima, Artists Books: A Critical Survey of the Literature, New York: Granary Books, 1998, 104 pp. [3]
• Renée Riese Hubert, Judd D. Hubert, The Cutting Edge of Reading: Artists’ Books, New York: Granary Books, 1999, 280 pp. [4]
• Sarah Bodman, Tom Sowden, A Manifesto for the Book, Bristol: Impact Press, 2010, 185 pp.
• Janneke Adema, Gary Hall, "The Political Nature of the Book: On Artists' Books and Radical Open Access", 2014.

Reader

• Everything in the World: A Book Arts Reader, ed. Harry Reese, 2007. For an UCSB class.