Publishing as an Artistic Toolbox: 1989-2017 (2017)
Filed under catalogue | Tags: · art, artists book, magazine, publishing
“What is the role of art publishing today? How have artists adapted modes of publishing as a tool for their practice? How has the notion of artists’ publishing activity changed, given the ever-increasing amount of fairs and an ever-evolving number of book-related collections in contemporary art museums? The multi-part exhibition project Publishing as an Artistic Toolbox: 1989-2017 explores the potentials of publishing – in the form of books, magazines, journals, artistic interventions, websites – as a particular medium and context both to circulate information, knowledge – and to produce art. The exhibition highlights how a recent generation of artists use publishing as a productive tool for their practice.”
Publisher Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, 2017
[28] pages
Bob Black: Beneath the Underground (1994)
Filed under book | Tags: · anarchism, artists book, magazine, publishing, zine culture
“Beneath the Underground is an in-depth exploration, from within, of a cultural phenomenon named by Bob Black as the ‘marginals milieu.’ You could also call it the do-it-yourself subculture. It consists of self-publishers of micro-circulation ‘zines’ and other self-produced art, music, pamphlets, and posters.”
Publisher Feral House, Portland, OR, 1994
ISBN 9780922915217, 0922915210
x+190 pages
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J.H. Kocman: Autorské knihy a papíry / Artists’ Books and Papers (1997) [Czech/English]
Filed under book | Tags: · artists book, conceptual art, mail art
Together with Jiří Valoch and Dalibor Chatrný, J.H. Kocman (1947) counts among the leading protagonists of Czech conceptual art whose life and work are closely linked with Brno. He is best known for his artists’ publishing and mail art.
Catalogue for an exhibition at Galerie Rudolfinum. Text by Jiří Valoch.
Edited by Zuzana Fořtová
Publisher Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, 1997
ISBN 809021942X
47 pages
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