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)
• 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.

Recent exhibitions

• Diamond Leaves:Brilliant Artist Books from Around the World, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, 2012. Curated by Xu Bing and Marshall Weber. [1]

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)

• Visible Language 25(2-3): "The Artist’s Book: The Text and Its Rivals", ed. Renée Riese Hubert, Apr 1991.

• The Journal of Artists' Books, ed. Brad Freeman, since 1994. [2]
  • The Journal of Artists' Books 12: "Experimental Narrative and Artists' Books", ed. Johanna Drucker, Fall 1999, JPGs. Exhibition catalogue.
  • The Journal of Artists' Books 15: "Book Unbound", ed. Cathy Byrd, Spring 2001, JPGs. Exhibition catalogue.

• Johanna Drucker, The Century of Artists’ Books, New York: Granary Books, 1995; 2nd ed., 2004, 377 pp. ch 1, ch 1. [3]
• Charles Alexander (ed.), Talking the Boundless Book: Art, Language, & the Book Arts, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, 1995, 144 pp.
• Johanna Drucker, "The Self-Conscious Codex: Artists' Books and Electronic Media", SubStance 26(1): "Metamorphoses of the Book", 1997, pp 93-112.
• Stefan Klima, Artists Books: A Critical Survey of the Literature, New York: Granary Books, 1998, 104 pp. Excerpt, [4].
• Renée Riese Hubert, Judd D. Hubert, The Cutting Edge of Reading: Artists’ Books, New York: Granary Books, 1999, 280 pp. [5]
• Jaroslav Andel, Avant Garde Book Design, 1900-1950, New York: Delano Greenidge Editions, 2002, 388 pp. Review: Margolin (DI 2003).
• Art Libraries 32(2): "Artists' ́Books", 2007. Abstracts.
• In Numbers: Serial Publications by Artists Since 1955, eds. Philip E Aarons and Andrew Roth, Zurich: JRP Ringier, 2009, 440 pp. [6]
• Sarah Bodman, Tom Sowden, A Manifesto for the Book, Bristol: Impact Press, 2010, 185 pp.
• 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. [7] [8]. 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)
• Clive Phillpot, Booktrek: Selected Essays on Artists' Books (1972-2010), ed. Lionel Bovier, Zurich: JRP Ringier, 2013, 286 pp. [9]
• Art Libraries 38(3): "Artists' ́Publications", 2013. Abstracts.
• Janneke Adema, Gary Hall, "The Political Nature of the Book: On Artists' Books and Radical Open Access", 2014.
• Tony White, "The Evolution of Artists’ Publishing", Art Documentation 33:2 (Sep 2014), pp 227-242.
• Albert Coers, Kunstkatalog—Katalogkunst. Der Ausstellungskatalog als künstlerisches Medium am Beispiel von Thomas Demand, Tobias Rehberger und Olafur Eliasson, Berlin: De Gruyter, 2015. (German)
• 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. [10]
• more, more, more.

Reader

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