Artists publishing
For artist and experimental publishing
Contents
Artists, writers, groups, 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
Libraries, archives, collections
- Archive Artist Publications, by Hubert Kretschmer, Munich.
- Archiv Sohm, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart. Est. 1963 in Markgröningen near Stuttgart by Hanns Sohm; in 1981 donated to the Staatsgalerie. Catalogue.
- Art Book in China Archive (ABCA), est. 2018
- Artpool, Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest. Est. by György Galántai and Júlia Klaniczay in 1979. In 1992, the archive became an official institution, the Artpool Art Research Center. In 2015, Artpool became a department of the Museum of Fine Arts. In 2020, it moved into the campus of the National Museum Restoration and Storage Center (OMRRK) and continues as part of the Central European Research Institute for Art History (KEMKI).
- Banner Repeater, public archive of artists' publishing, London, est. 2010.
- Centre for Artists' Publications (Zentrum für Künstlerpublikationen), Neuen Museum Weserburg, Bremen. Est. 1999. Founded as Archive for Small Press & Communication (ASPC) by Anne Marsily and Guy Schraenen in 1974 in Antwerp. [1] [2]
- Digital Archive of Artists' Publishing (DAAP). Est. 2020 by Banner Repeater. Soft launch. Fundraiser. [3]
- Exchange Gallery/Galeria Wymiany, Łódź. Est. by Józef Robakowski and Izabela Robakowska in 1978. [4]
- Franklin Furnace Artists' Books Collection, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY.
- Glasgow Zine Library, Glasgow.
- Guttormsgaards arkiv, Blaker, Oslo.
- Herbarium Riso, We Make It, Berlin.
- John M. Flaxman Library: Joan Flasch Artists' Book Collection, at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC).
- Library of Artistic Print on Demand, eds. Andreas Bülhoff and Annette Gilbert, 2019-2022. To be deposited to the Bavarian State Library.
- MoMA Library, New York. [5]
- 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.
- Wendy’s Subway, Brooklyn.
- Zines of the Zone, Nancy.
- Zona Archives, Firenze. Est. 1974 by Maurizio Nannucci, et al. Part of the Zona non profit art space until it closed down in 1985.
- Past
- Art Information Centre, est. in 1969 by Peter van Beveren, Middelburg, NL. In 1993, sold to a second-hand bookshop in Amsterdam.
- Other Books and So, gallery-shop founded by Ulises Carrión in Amsterdam in 1975; closed in 1979 and operated as a private archive until his death in 1989.
Digital
- Artists' Books Online, an online repository of facsimiles, metadata, and criticism. Director: Johanna Drucker, project manager: Eric Rettberg.
- La Bibliothèque Fantastique, an artist’s books virtual publisher. Ed. Antoine Lefebvre.
- Booknesses: Artists' Books From the Jack Ginsberg Collection. Contents.
- Post-Digital Publishing Archive, Projects and Artworks at the Intersection of Publishing and Digital Technology. Maintained by Silvio Lorusso.
- Library of Artistic Print on Demand, est. 2021 by Andreas Bülhoff and Annette Gilbert.
- Artists' books on Monoskop Log
Stores, distributors, libraries
- Ecart, Geneva, 1969-1982.
- Art Metropole, Toronto, *1974.
- Other Books and So, Amsterdam, 1975-1979.
- Printed Matter, New York, *1976.
- Idea Books, Amsterdam, *1976.
- Galerie A / Multiples.nl, Amsterdam, *1976.
- Book Works, London, *1984.
- Perdu, Amsterdam, *1984.
- RAM Publications, Santa Monica, CA, *1984.
- Boekie Woekie, Amsterdam, *1986.
- Florence Loewy, Paris, *1989.
- Les presses du réel, Dijon, *1992.
- Antiquariat Querido, Düsseldorf, *1996.
- Pipifax, Zürich, *1997.
- Onestar Press, Paris, *2000.
- Kubrick, Hong Kong, *2001.
- Utrecht, Tokyo, *2002.
- bookartbookshop, London, *2002.
- PrintRoom, Rotterdam, *2003.
- Textfield, Inc., Los Angeles, *c.2003.
- Ooga Booga, Los Angeles, *2004.
- K-Set Archive, Zürich, *2004.
- Dashwood Books, New York, *2005.
- Torpedo, Oslo, *2005.
- Vamp & Tramp, Birmingham, AL, *2006.
- Motto, Berlin, *2007. #boycottmotto
- Salon für Kunstbuch, Vienna, *2007.
- Family Los Angeles, Los Angeles, *c.2007.
- Bökship, London, *2008.
- Aye-Aye Books, Glasgow, *2008.
- Ji Lu Chang 记录厂, Kunming City, China, *2008.
- Panorama, Tokyo (web), *2008.
- Archive Kabinett, Berlin, *2009.
- split/fountain, Auckland, *2009.
- Tenderbooks, London, *c.2009.
- Ti Pi Tin, London, *2009.
- Antenne Books, London, *2010.
- Banner Repeater, London, *2010.
- The Book Society, Seoul, *2010.
- Gagarin, Seoul, *2010.
- Bananafish Books, Shanghai, *2010, [6].
- Perimeter, Melbourne, *2011.
- San Serriffe, Amsterdam, *2011.
- Good Press, Glasgow, *2011.
- Mondo Books, Tromsø, *2011.
- Lote 42, São Paulo, *2012.
- PageFive, Prague, *2013.
- Xaoxax, Prague, *2013.
- Lugemik, Tallinn, *2013.
- Artbooks.ph, Mandaluyong City, Philippines, *2014.
- Publishing as (part-time) Practice (PAPP), Sweden, *2015.
- Closing Ceremony, Shanghai, *2015.
- Book B, Hong Kong, *2015.
- Ulises, Philadelphia, *2016.
- After 8 Books (formerly Section 7 Books), Paris, *2016.
- Page Not Found, The Hague, *2018.
- Dispozitiv Books, Bucharest, *2019.
- Miriam, Brooklyn, NY, *2019.
- Inga, Los Angeles, *2019.
- B*stard, Lillehammer, *2021.
- Cittipunkt Library, Berlin, *2022
- Kunstbokhandel Under Press, Bergen, *2023.
Works
Bookworks
Periodicals
- Pre-1945 avant-garde
- Lettrist
- Ur. Cahiers pour un dictat culturel, 3+7 numbers, ed. Maurice Bismuth, Paris: Brunidor, 1950-53 (nos. 1-3) & 1963-67 (nos. 1-7). [7] [8]
- Ion. Centre de création, 1 issue, ed. Marc-Gilbert Guillaumain [Marc’O], Apr 1952, 286 pp. [9] [10]
- Lettrist International
- Internationale lettriste, 4 numbers, ed. G.-E. Debord, Paris: Internationale lettriste, Dec 1952-Jun 1954.
- English translation, Not Bored!, n.d. (English)
- Potlatch: bulletin d'information de groupe français de l'Internationale lettriste, later Potlatch: bulletin d'information de l'Internationale lettriste, 29 numbers (27 issues), eds. André-Frank Conord (1-8), Mohamed Dahou (9-18, 20-22), Gil J. Wolman (19), and Jacques Fillon (23-24), Paris, 22 Jun 1954-5 Nov 1957; new ed., augm., as Potlatch, 1954-1957, Paris: Lebovici, 1985, 242 pp; repr. as Guy Debord présente Potlatch, 1954-1957, Paris: Gallimard, 1996, 291 pp. [11] [12]
- Guy Debord präsentiert Potlatch, 1954-1957. Informationsbulletin der Lettristischen Internationale, mit einem Dokumentenanhang, trans. Wolfgang Kukulies, Berlin: Tiamat, 2002, 381 pp. (German)
- Potlatch: Internacional Letrista (1954-1959). Más Introducción a una crítica de la geografía urbana; Modo de uso del desvío. Informe sobre la construcción de situaciones y sobre las condiciones de la organización y la acción de la tendencia situacionista internacional, Madrid: Traficantes de Sueños, 2002, 157 pp. [13] (Spanish)
- "Potlatch: Information Bulletin of the French Section of the Lettrist International (selection)", n.d., HTML. (English)
- Translations of selected articles in Russian, c2017. (Russian)
- Les Lèvres Nues, 12 numbers, Brussels, 1954-1958; facs., Paris: Plasma, 1978, 500 pp; Paris: Allia, 1999. [14]
- Situationist
- Internationale situationniste. Bulletin central éd. par les sections de l'Internationale situationniste, 12 numbers, ed. Guy-Ernest Debord, Paris, Jun 1958-Sep 1969, HTML; repr. as Internationale Situationniste: 1958-1969, Amsterdam: Van Gennep, 1970, c500 pp; Paris: Champ Libre, 1975, 692 pp; Paris: Fayard, 1997, xi+706 pp. Subtitle changed to Revue de la section francaise from number 9. [15] (French)
- Internationale Situationniste. Réédition d’articles (Supplement a 4 Millions de Jeunes Travailleurs), Paris: Les Amis de 4 millions de jeunes travailleurs, [1970], 44 pp. Revised versions of 7 selected texts. (French)
- The Incomplete Work of the Situationist International, trans. & ed. Christopher Gray, London: Free Fall Publications, 1974, 167 pp; repr. as Leaving the 20th Century: The Incomplete Work of the Situationist International, intro. Richard Parry, London: Rebel Press, 1998, vii+136 pp. Trans. of selected texts. [16] (English)
- "French Journals (1958-1969)", in Situationist International Anthology [1981], rev. & exp. ed., ed. & trans. Ken Knabb, Berkeley, CA: Bureau of Public Secrets, 2006, pp 45-383, HTML, EPUB. (English)
- Internacional Situacionista. Antologia, ed., trans., notes & pref. Júlio Henriques, Lisbon: Antígona, 1997, 323 pp. Trans. of selected texts. [17] (Portuguese)
- Internacional Situacionista, 1: La realización del arte. International Situationniste # 1-6 más 'Informe sobre la construcción de situaciones', trans. Luis Navarro, Madrid: Gris, 1999, 222 pp. (Spanish)
- Internacional Situacionista, 2: La supersión de la política. International Situationniste # 9-12 más 'Tesis sobre la I.S. y su tiempo, trans. Luis Navarro, Madrid: Traficantes de sueños, 2004, 156 pp. [18] (Spanish)
- Trans. of selected texts into Swedish. (Swedish)
- Cahier pour un paysage à inventer, 1 issue, ed. Patrick Straram, Montreal, May 1960, 103 pp. A Situationist-influenced periodical. [19] (French)
- Spur. Organ der Situationistische Internationale, 7 numbers, ed. Gruppe Spur, Munich, Aug 1960-Jan 1962. Journal of the German section of SI. (German)
- The Situationist Times, 6 numbers, eds. Jacqueline de Jong (1-6) and Noël Arnaud (1-2), Hengelo (NL), Copenhagen and Paris, May 1962-Dec 1967. (English)
- Drakabygget: tidskrift for konst mot atombomber, påvar och politiker, 11 numbers (5 issues), eds. Katarina Lindell (1-3), Jørgen Nash (4-11), and Lis Zwick (6-11), Örkelljunga, Sweden: Bauhaus Situationiste: Drakabyggets kollektivverkstad, 1962-1965 & 1982-1983. The journal of the Bauhaus Situationiste group. [20] (Swedish)
- trans., in Cosmonauts of the Future: Texts from the Situationist Movement in Scandinavia and Elsewhere, eds. Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen and Jakob Jakobsen, Copenhagen: Nebula, and New York: Autonomedia, 2015. Trans. of selected texts. (English)
- Situationistisk revolution: centralorgan for den skandinaviske sektion af situationistisk internationale, 3 numbers, ed. J.V. Martin, 1962 & 1967 & Oct 1970; repr., Aarhus: After Hand, 2013. Journal of Danish section of SI. [21] [22] [23] (Danish)
- trans., in Cosmonauts of the Future: Texts from the Situationist Movement in Scandinavia and Elsewhere, eds. Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen and Jakob Jakobsen, Copenhagen: Nebula, and New York: Autonomedia, 2015. Trans. of selected texts by J.V. Martin. (English)
- Der Deutsche Gedanke. Organ der Situationistischen Internationale für Mitteleuropa, 1 issue, ed. Raoul Vaneigem, Brussels, Apr 1963. First issue of the Internationale situationniste in Germany, Der Deutsche Gedanke was meant to replace Spur after the exclusion of the group. [24]. (German)
- Situationist International: Review of the American Section of the S.I., 1 issue, New York: Situationist International, Jun 1969, 46 pp, HTML; facs. repr., Portland, OR: Extreme Press, 1993. [25] [26] (English)
- trans., in Écrits. Section américaine de l’Internationale situationniste, trans. Fabrice de San Mateo, Toulouse: CMDE, 2012, 96 pp. [27] (French)
- Internazionale Situationista, 1 issue, Milan: Internazionale Situazionista, Jul 1969, 144 pp. Journal of the Italian section of SI. [28] [29] (Italian)
- trans., in Section italienne de l'Internationale Situationniste: Ecrits complets, 1969-1972, trans. Joel Gayraud and Luc Mercier, Paris: Contre-Moule, 1988. (French)
- Conceptual
- 0-9, 6 numbers, eds. Bernadette Meyer and Vito Acconci, New York, 1967-1969. Reprint. [30], [31]. FSL. [32], [33], 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, [34], [35].
- Új Symposion, 77+ numbers, eds. Bálint Szombathy (1971-72, 1986-89), László Kerekes (1984-85), et al., Novi Sad: Tribina mladih, [1971]-[1989]. [36], [37], [38], [39], [40]. (Hungarian)
- Index, eds. Slobodan Tišma, Janez Kocijanić, and Mirko Radojičić, Novi Sad, [1969]-[1972]. Student magazine. [41]. (Serbo-Croatian)
- Data, 32 numbers, eds. Tommaso Trini (Castelli) and Ciacia Nicastro, Milan: Prearo, 1971-1978. [42]. [43] (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, [44].
- Vision, 5 numbers, ed. Tom Marioni, Oakland, CA: Crown Point Press, 1975-1981. Issue 1. [45], [46], [47].
- 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. [48]
- 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. [49] [50] [51]
- 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.
Anthologies, sourcebooks
- Artists' Books: A Critical Anthology and Sourcebook, ed. Joan Lyons, Rochester, NY: Visual Studies Workshop, 1985, 269 pp; abbr.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)
Literature
Selected essays
- Stéphane Mallarmé, "Le livre, instrument spirituel", in Mallarmé, Divagations, Paris: Fasquelle, 1897, pp 273-280. (French)
- "The Book, Spiritual Instrument", trans. Michael Gibbs, New Wilderness Letter 11, New York: New Wilderness Foundation, Dec 1982, pp 1-5, HTML. (English)
- El Lissitzky, "Unser Buch", in Gutenberg Jahrbuch 1927, ed. Alois Ruppel, Mainz: Gutenberg-Gesellschaft, 1926-1927; repr., rev. Jan Tschichold, in Werke und Aufsatze von El Lissitzky (1890-1941), ed. Jan Tschichold, Berlin: Gerhardt, 1971. (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)
- Harold Rosenberg, "Art Books, Book Art, Art", in Rosenberg, The Anxious Object: Art Today and its Audience, New York: Horizon Press, 1964; repr., London: Thames & Hudson, 1965, pp 196-203. (English)
- trans. Gabriella Drudi, in Rosenberg, L'oggetto ansioso, Milan: Bompiani, 1967. (Italian)
- trans. Vera Pereira, in Rosenberg, Objeto ansioso, São Paulo: Cosac & Naify, 2004. (Brazilian Portuguese)
- Germano Celant, "Book as Artwork 1960/1970", DATA 1, Sep 1971, pp 35-49, IA; repr., VH 101 9, Autumn 1972. See also Celant 1972. (Italian)
- "Das Buch als Kunstform 1960-1970", Interfunktionen 11, 1974, pp 85-105. (German)
- "Books as Artwork, 1960-1972", in Books by Artists, eds. Tim Guest and Germano Celant, Toronto: Art Metropole, 1981, pp 85-104. (English)
- "Le livre comme oeuvre d'art, 1960-72", in Books by Artists, eds. Tim Guest and Germano Celant, Toronto: Art Metropole, 1981, pp 85-104. (French)
- Victor Musgrave, "The Unknown Art Movement", Art and Artists 7, Oct 1972, pp 12-14. (English)
- Lynn Lester Hershman, "Slices of Silence, Parcels of Time: the Book as a Portable Sculpture", in Artists Books, ed. Dianne Perry Vanderlip, Philadelphia: Moore College of Art, 1973. (English)
- John Perreault, "Some Thoughts on Books as Art", in Artists Books, ed. Dianne Perry Vanderlip, Philadelphia: Moore College of Art, 1973, pp 15-21. (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. [52] (Spanish)
- "The New Art of Making Books", Kontexts 6-7, Maastricht, 1975; repr. in Ulises Carrión. 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. Joan Lyons, 1985, pp 31-44; repr. in Ulises Carrion: We have won! Haven’t we?, ed. Guy Schraenen, Amsterdam: Fodor Museum, 1992. (English)
- more translations
- Lucy R. Lippard, "Going Over the Books", Artweek 7:37, 30 Oct 1976, pp 11-12. (English)
- Lucy R. Lippard, "The Artist's Book Goes Public", Art in America, Jan-Feb 1977, pp 40-41; 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. Joan Lyons, 1985, pp 45-48. (English)
- Edit deAk, Mike Robinson, "Printed Matter and Artists’ Books", LAICA Journal 13, Jan 1977, pp 28-30. (English)
- Lucy R. Lippard, "Surprises: An Anthological Introduction to Some Women Artists' Books", Chrysalis 5, Los Angeles, 1977, pp 71-84, PDF. (English)
- Alexandra Anderson, "Scrapbooks, etc. –Artists’ Books Come of Age", Artnews 77:3, Mar 1978, pp 68-70. (English)
- Ulises Carrión, "From Bookworks to Mailworks", in Van kunstenaarsboeken tot postkunst / From Bookworks to Mailworks, ed. Ulises Carrión, Alkmaar: Stedelijk Museum, 1978; repr. in A könyvmüvektol a küldeménymüvekig / From Bookworks to Mailworks, ed. Ulises Carrión, Budapest: Fiatal Müvészek Klubja, 1978; repr. in Carrión, Second Thoughts, Amsterdam: VOID, 1980. (English)
- "Van kunstenaarsboeken tot postkunst", in Van kunstenaarsboeken tot postkunst / From Bookworks to Mailworks, ed. Ulises Carrión, Alkmaar: Stedelijk Museum, 1978. (Dutch)
- "A könyvmüvektol a küldeménymüvekig", in A könyvmüvektol a küldeménymüvekig / From Bookworks to Mailworks, ed. Ulises Carrión, Budapest: Fiatal Müvészek Klubja, 1978. (Hungarian)
- Ulises Carrión, "Bookworks Revisited", Print Collector's Newsletter 11:1, Mar-Apr 1980, pp 6-9; repr. in Carrión, Second Thoughts, Amsterdam: VOID, 1980. (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)
- Clive Phillpot, "Books, Book Objects, Bookworks, Artists’ Books", Artforum 20:9, May 1982, pp 77-79. (English)
- Martha Gever, "Artists’ Books: Alternative Space or Precious Object?", Afterimage 9:10, May 1982, pp 6-8. (English)
- Clive Phillpot, "Two Decades of Book Art", Views 5:1, 1983, pp 13-15. (English)
- Barbara Braun, "Artists’ Books", Small Press 2:1, Sep-Oct 1984, pp 64-73. (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. Joan 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. Joan Lyons, 1985, pp 59-85. (English)
- Barbara Moore, Jon Hendricks, "The Page as Alternative Space: 1950 to 1969", Flue 1:7, New York: Franklin Furnace, Dec 1980, pp 1-8; repr. in Artists' Books: A Critical Anthology and Sourcebook, ed. Joan Lyons, 1985, pp 87-95. [53] (English)
- Clive Phillpot, "Some Contemporary Artists and Their Books", in Artists' Books: A Critical Anthology and Sourcebook, ed. Joan Lyons, 1985, pp 97-132. (English)
- Robert C. Morgan, "Systemic Books by Artists", in Artists' Books: A Critical Anthology and Sourcebook, ed. Joan 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)
- What, How & for Whom / WHW, "Artists's Books in (what was formerly known as) Eastern Europe", New York: Printed Matter, 2006. (English)
- Martha Hellion, "Artists’ Books from Latin America", Printed Matter, Nov 2006. (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)
- Mary Anne Dyer, Yuki Hibben, "Developing a Book Art Genre Headings Index", Art Documentation 31:1, Spring 2012, pp 57-66. (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. [54] [55] (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)
- Eva Weinmayr, "Library Underground — a reading list for a coming community", in Publishing as Artistic Practice, ed. Annette Gilbert, Berlin: Sternberg Press, Mar 2016, pp 156-187. [56] (English)
- David Senior, "Back in Time with Time-Based Works: Artists' Books at Franklin Furnace, 1976-1980", VoCA Journal, 31 Mar 2017. (English)
- Display Distribute, "The Semi-Autonomous Zine: Charting Margins and Peripheries in Independent Publishing", Asia Art Archive, 2 Aug 2018. (English)
- David Senior, "Feminist Publishing", SFMOMA, Oct 2019. (English)
- Colby Chamberlain, "Desktop Arenas: Magazine Pieces and the Professions of the Neo-Avant-Garde", Grey Room 78, Winter 2020, pp 66-95. [57] (English)
- Mela Dávila Freire, Un espacio tomado quizás por fantasmas, León: Fundación Cerezales Antonino y Cinia (FCAYC), Sep 2022, 26 pp. [58] (Spanish)
- "Ein Raum, vielleicht nicht frei von Einbildungen", trans. Maximilian Peitzsch, Wartenau Art Education, Nov 2023. (German)
- Maggie Borowitz, "“To Make Books Is to Multiply”: Artists' Books and Feminist Expression in Mexico", ARTMargins 12:3, Oct 2023, pp 7-29. [59] (English)
Readers
- Artists' Books: A Critical Anthology and Sourcebook, ed. Joan Lyons, Rochester, NY: Visual Studies Workshop, 1985, 269 pp; abbr.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, theses
- Germano Celant, Book as Artwork 1960-1972, trans. Corine Lotz, London: Nigel Greenwood, 1972, 47 pp; 2nd ed., Brooklyn, NY: 6 Decades Books, 2010, 97 pp. See also Celant 1971. [60] (English)
- Lothar Lang, Expressionistische Buchillustration in Deutschland, 1907-1927, Leipzig: Edition Leipzig, 1975, 242 pp; 2nd ed., rev. & exp., as Expressionismus und Buchkunst in Deutschland 1907-1927, Leipzig: Edition Leipzig, 1993, 240 pp. (German)
- Expressionist Book Illustration in Germany, 1907-1927, trans. Janet Seligman; London: Thames and Hudson, 1976, 245 pp; Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1976, 245 pp. (English)
- Susan Compton, World Backwards: Russian Futurist Book 1912-1916, London: British Library, 1978, 136 pp. (English)
- Ulises Carrión, Second Thoughts, Amsterdam: VOID, 1980, 72 pp. (English)
- Magnús Pálsson, et al., bók um bók og fleira, Reykjavík, 1980; repr., Reykjavík: Útúrdúr, 2012. [61] [62] [63] [64] (Icelandic)
- François Chapon, Le Peintre et le livre: l'age d'or du livre illustré en France 1870-1970, Paris: Flammarion, 1987. (French)
- Renée Riese Hubert, Surrealism and the Book, University of California Press, 1988, xvii+358 pp. A study of collaborations between surrealist painters and authors that resulted in illustrated books. [67]. Review: Williams (Romance Q). (English)
- Walter Jule (ed.), Precarious Balance: Print Voice II, Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 1989, 91 pp. Publisher.
- Lothar Lang, Konstruktivismus und Buchkunst, Leipzig: Edition Leipzig, 1990, 208 pp. TOC. (German)
- 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), Barrett (Art Monthly). (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. [68], [69], [70]. Reviews: Poulain (BBF), Hermange (Etudes Photo). (French)
- Lothar Lang, Impressionismus und Buchkunst in Frankreich und Deutschland, Leipzig: Edition Leipzig, 1998, 208 pp. (German)
- Stefan Klima, Artists Books: A Critical Survey of the Literature, New York: Granary Books, 1998, 104 pp. [71]. (English)
- Cathy Courtney, Speaking of Book Art: Interviews With British & American Book Artists, Los Altos Hills, CA: Anderson-Lovelace, 1999, ix+241 pp. [72] (English)
- Renée Riese Hubert, Judd D. Hubert, The Cutting Edge of Reading: Artists’ Books, New York: Granary Books, 1999, 280 pp. [73] (English)
- Stephen Bury, Artists' Multiples: 1935-2000, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2001, xiii+194 pp. Main text (Chapters 1-8). [74] (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. [75] (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)
- Isabelle Schwarz, Archive für Künstlerpublikationen der 1960er bis 1980er Jahre, Cologne: Salon, 2008, 495 pp. TOC. (German)
- 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)
- Barbara Bader, Modernism and the Order of Things: A Museography of Books by Artists, Saarbrücken: Südwestdeutscher Verlag für Hochschulschriften, 2010, 229 pp. (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. [76] [77]. 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. [78] [79] (English)
- Dave Dyment, Gregory Elgstrand (eds.), One for Me and One to Share: Artist Multiples and Editions, Toronto: YYZBOOKS, 2012, 204 pp. Excerpt. Publisher.
- 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. [80] (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. [81] (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. [82]. 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. [83] (English)
- Bernhard Cella, Leo Findeisen, Agnes Blaha (eds.), No-ISBN: On Self-Publishing, Cologne: Buchhandlung Walther König, 2015, 506 pp; 2nd ed., Vienna: Salon für Kunstbuch, 2017, 515 pp. Excerpt. TOC. Publisher. Publisher. (English)
- No-ISBN, Vienna: Salon für Kunstbuch, 2019. [84] (Arabic)
- Mikhail Pogarsky (Михаил Погарский), Kniga khudozhnika: ideologiya, filosofiya, struktura, klassifikatsiya, tekhnologiya, paralleli, peresecheniya, istoriya [Книга художника. идеология, философия, структура, классификация, технология, параллели, пересечения, история], Moscow: I.P. Pogarsky, 2015, 416 pp. Excerpt. (Russian)
- Michael Hampton, Unshelfmarked: Reconceiving the Artists’ Book, Uniformbooks, 2015, 176 pp. Excerpt. Reviews: Shaw (Afterimage), Barrett (Art Monthly). [85] (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. [86] (English)/(French)
- Annette Gilbert (ed.), Publishing as Artistic Practice, Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2016, 304 pp. TOC, Weinmayr's essay. Workshop. [87] (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. [88] (English)
- Temporary Services (eds.), 12 Contributors, 5 Publications, 5 Years, Chicago and Fort Wayne: Half Letter Press, 2016, 40 pp. [89] (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. [90] (English)
- Jérôme Dupeyrat, Entretiens: perspectives contemporaines sur les publications d'artistes, Rennes: Incertain Sens, 2017, 312 pp. [91] (French)
- Jan Pettersson (ed.), Printmaking in the Expanded Field, Oslo: Oslo National Academy of the Arts, 2017, 384 pp. (English)
- Lucy Mulroney, Andy Warhol, Publisher, University of Chicago Press, 2018, 193 pp. (English)
- Marshall Weber (ed.), Freedom of the Presses: Artists' Books in the 21st Century, Brooklyn, NY: Booklyn, 2018, 218 pp. TOC. Review: Sherman (Afterimage). [92] (English)
- Anne M. Royston, Material Noise: Reading Theory as Artist's Book, MIT Press, 2019, 224 pp. Review: Buechler (Afterimage). [93] (English)
- Michalis Pichler (ed.), Publishing Manifestos: An International Anthology from Artists and Writers, MIT Press, and Berlin: Miss Read, 2019, 340 pp. Manifestos by artists, authors, editors, publishers, designers, zinesters explore publishing as artistic practice. Publisher.
- Eva Weinmayr, Noun to Verb: An Investigation Into the Micro-politics of Publishing Through Artistic Practice, Gothenburg: University of Gothenburg, 2020, PDF. PhD dissertation. [94] (English)
- Karen Di Franco, Embodied Iteration: Materialising the Language of Writing and Performance in Women Artists’ Publishing, 1968-1979, University of Reading, 2020. PhD dissertation. [95] (English)
- Georgina Colby, Kaja Marczewska, Leigh Wilson (eds.), The Contemporary Small Press: Making Publishing Visible, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, xvii+281 pp. [96]
- Janneke Adema, Marcell Mars, Tobias Steiner, Books Contain Multitudes: Exploring Experimental Publishing, COPIM, Jan 2021, PDF. Report. (English)
- Kyle Schlesinger (ed.), A Poetics of the Press: Interviews with Poets, Printers, & Publishers, Austin, TX: Cuneiform Press, and Brooklyn, NY: Ugly Duckling Presse, 2021, 384 pp. [97] [98]
- Lim Kyung yong, Helen Jungyeon Ku (eds.), Publishing as Method: Ways of Working Together in Asia, Seoul: mediabus, 2023, 446 pp. Publisher. (Korean)/(English)
- Melania Gazzotti (ed.), On Collecting Artists' Books: The Liliana Dematteis Collection at the Thomas J. Watson Library, the Metropolitan Museum of Art / La collezione Liliana Dematteis presso la Thomas J. Watson Library, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Mantova: Corraini, 2023, 109 pp. Publisher. (English)/(Italian)
- Alessandro Ludovico, Tactical Publishing: Using Senses, Software, and Archives in the Twenty-First Century, forew. Nick Montfort, MIT Press (Leonardo), 2024, xii+324 pp. Publisher.
Periodicals
- The Journal of Artists' Books, ed. Brad Freeman, since 1994. [99] (English)
- Book Arts Newsletter, ed. Sarah Bodman, since 2002. Every four-six weeks. (English)
- The Blue Notebook: Journal for Artists' Books, since 2006. [100] (English)
Journal and magazine issues
- TriQuarterly 32: "Anti-Object Art", eds. Lawrence Levy and John Perreault, Winter 1975. TOC. (English)
- Art-Rite 14: "Artists' Books", eds. Walter Robinson and Edit deAk, New York: Art-Rite, Winter 1976/1977. [101] [102] (English)
- The Dumb Ox 4: "Artists' Books", eds. James Hugunin and Theron Kelley, Los Angeles, Spring 1977. (English)
- Kalejdoskop 1-2: "Konstnärsböcker / Artists' Books", ed. Sune Nordgren, Åhus, Sweden: Kalejdoskop, 1980, 82 pp. TOC. [103] (Swedish)
- 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)
- Artery 5:4, The National Forum for College Art, Dec 1982. In conjunction with the exhibition Artists' Books: A Survey 1960-1981 held at Ben Shahn Gallery, William Paterson College. (English)
- New Wilderness Letter 11: "The Book, Spiritual Instrument", eds. Jerome Rothenberg and David Guss, New York: New Wilderness Foundation, Dec 1982, 77 pp, TOC, PDF (English)
- Craft International: "The State of the Book Arts", ed. Douglas Wolf, Oct-Dec 1984. (English)
- Visible Language 25(2-3): "The Artist’s Book: The Text and Its Rivals", ed. Renée Riese Hubert, Apr 1991, [217] pp, PDFs. (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)
- ARTMargins 5(3): "Art Periodicals, Historically Considered", eds. Octavian Eşanu and Angela Harutyunyan, 2016, 114 pp. (English)
- MAP - Media | Archive | Performance 9: "Das Buch als Archiv-Raum und Medium der Kunst", eds. Barbara Büscher, et al., Leipzig & Berlin, 2018. (German)
- Flash Art Czech & Slovak Edition 53: "Autorská kniha", Prague, 2019. [104] (Czech),(Slovak)
- OEI 86-87: "Publiceringspraktiker, publiceringspoetiker / Publishing Practices, Publishing Poetics", eds. Jonas Magnusson and Cecilia Grönberg, Stockholm: OEI, 2020, 640 pp. [105] [106] (Swedish),(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)
- The Artist & the Book, 1860-1960: in Western Europe and the United States, ed. Eleanor M Garvey, Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1961, 232 pp. (English)
- Publikaties van de Edition Hansjörg Mayer en werk van Hansjörg Mayer / Publikationen der Edition Hansjörg Mayer und Arbeiten von Hansjörg Mayer / Publications by Edition Hansjörg Mayer and Works by Hansjörg Mayer, The Hague: Haags Gemeentemuseum, and Stuttgart: H. Mayer, 1968, 194 pp. Exh. held 5 Oct-24 Nov 1968. [107] (Dutch)/(German)/(English)
- Artists Books, ed. & forew. Dianne Perry 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)
- Artists' Bookworks: A Travelling Exhibition of Recent Books, Booklets, Pamphlets, Catalogues, Periodicals, Anthologies and Magazines / Kunstwerke in Buchform: eine Wanderausstellung von neueren Büchern, Broschüren, Handzetteln, Katalogen, Zeitschriften, Anthologien und Magazines, ed. Martin Attwood, London: British Council, 1975, 132 pp. With essays by Martin Attwood and Clive Phillpot. (English)/(German)
- Artists' Books, Booklets, Pamphlets, Catalogues, Periodicals, Anthologies, and Magazines Almost All Published Since 1970, ed. Martin Attwood, London: Arts Council of Great Britain, 1976, 96 pp. With essays by Richard Francis, Clive Phillpot, Brandon Taylor. (English)
- Bookworks, intro. Barbara London, New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1977, [18] pp. Exh. checklist. Exh. held at MoMA, 17 Mar-17 May 1977. Press release. Exh. review: Glueck (NYT). (English)
- Latin America assembling / Éditions et communications marginales d'Amérique Latine, ed. Guy Schraenen, Le Havre: Maison de la Culture, 1977. [108] [109] (English),(French),(Spanish),(Portuguese)
- 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. [110] (French)
- Van kunstenaarsboeken tot postkunst / From Bookworks to Mailworks, ed. Ulises Carrión, Alkmaar: Stedelijk Museum, 1978, [12] pp. (Dutch)/(English)
- A könyvmüvektol a küldeménymüvekig / From Bookworks to Mailworks, Budapest: Fiatal Müvészek Klubja, 1978, [9] leaves. Exh. held at Fiatal Müvészek Klubja, Budapest, 12-14 Dec 1978. (Hungarian)/(English)
- Contemporary Artists' Books, ed. Annabel Terry-Engell, London: Eaton House, 1979, 88 pp. (English)
- Books by Artists, eds. Tim Guest and Germano Celant, Toronto: Art Metropole, 1981, 126 pp. Exh. held at the Winnipeg Art Gallery, 2 May-14 Jun 1981; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 1 Oct-1 Nov 1981; Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina, 10 Nov-13 Dec 1981. (English)/(French)
- Llibres d'artista / Artists' Books, ed. Tous i Giner Rafael, trans. Glòria Picazo, Barcelona: Metroǹom, 1981, 200 pp. Exh. held 5 Oct-6 Nov 1981. Text by Ulises Carrión, Hubert Kretschmer, José Luis Mata, and Guy Schraenen. [111] (Catalan)/(English)
- 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)
- Identikits: Artists' Books from Mexico, eds. Carla Stellweg and Martha Hellion, New York: Franklin Furnace, 1982, 1 box. Exh. held at [Franklin Furnace, New York, 26 May-26 Jun 1982.
- Offset: A Survey of Artists' Books, ed. Gary Richman, Cambridge, MA: New England Foundation for the Arts, 1984, [47] pp. (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. [112] (French)
- Audrey Isselbacher, Iliazd and the Illustrated Book, New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1987, 85 pp. [113] (English)
- Deborah Wye, Committed to Print: Social and Political Themes in Recent American Printed Art, New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1988, 120 pp, IA. Exh. held 31 Jan-19 Apr 1988. (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. [114] (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. [115] (English)
- Libros de artista / Artist's Books, 2 vols., ed. Martha Hellion, Madrid: Turner, 2003, 360+178 pp. [116] (Spanish)/(English)
- Riva Castleman, A Century of Artists Books, New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1994, 263 pp. [117]. Review: Haskell (SubStance). (English)
- Latin American Book Arts, New York: Center for Book Arts, 1995. Exh. held 13 Jan-25 Mar 1995, [46] pp. [118] (English)/(Portuguese),(Spanish)
- 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. [119] (French)
- Kniga khudozhnika: Rossiya 1970-1990-ye gody. Iz sobraniya GMII im. A. S. Pushkina i chastnykh kollektsiy [Книга художника: Россия 1970-1990-е годы. Из собрания ГМИИ им. А. С. Пушкина и частных коллекций], ed. Anna Tchoudetskaia, Moscow: Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, 1999. [120] (Russian)
- 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. [121] (English)
- Margit Rowell, Deborah Wye, The Russian Avant-Garde Book, 1910-1934, New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2002, 304 pp. Online companion. [122] (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)
- Outside of a Dog: Paperbacks and Other Books by Artists, eds. Clive Phillpot and Sune Nordgren, Gateshead (Newcastle): Baltic The Centre for Contemporary Art, 2003, [35] pp. [123] (English)
- Matthias Herrmann, Artists' Books, Revisited, Toronto: Art Metropole, 2005, 72 pp. [124] (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. [125] (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)
- Artists’ Book Not Artists’ Book, eds. Johan Kugelberg and Jeremy Sanders, New York: Boo-Hurray, 2012. Exh. held at Boo-Hurray gallery, New York, 18 Jan-12 Feb 2012, 96 pp. [126] [127]
- 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)
- Rising Together: an Exhibition of Artists’ Books, Prints and Zines with a Social Conscience, Rochester, NY: College Book Art Association, 2018, 47 pp. A traveling exhibit organised by the College Book Art Association and hosted in conjunction with the following institutions: Center for Book Arts, Mills College, HMCT/Artcenter College of Design, San Francisco Center for the Book, University of Iowa, University of Puget Sound, University of Utah, 2018-2021. [128]
- Mela Dávila Freire, Off-Register: Publishing Experiments by Women Artists in Latin America, 1960-1990 / Fuera de registro: experimentos editoriales de mujeres artistas en Latinoamérica, 1960-1990, New York: Center for Book Arts, 2023, 190 pp. Publisher. Exhibition. (English)/(Spanish)
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. [129]
Bibliographies
- Judith Hoffberg, "The Women Artists' Books: A Select Bibliography", Chrysalis 5, Los Angeles, 1977, pp 85-87, PDF.
- Janet Dalberto, "Contemporary Multiple Edition Artists' Books: A Bibliography of Information Sources", Art Documentation 1:6, Dec 1982, pp 178-181.
- "Bibliography of Secondary Sources", in Artists' Books: A Critical Anthology and Sourcebook, ed. Joan Lyons, Rochester, NY: Visual Studies Workshop, 1985, pp 233-258.
- Reading list for artists’ books, compiled from books held in the library at Bower Ashton, UWE Bristol and the Centre for Fine Print Research
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, 2008-2010.
- Collecting Books: A conceptual snapshot of the arts in book form. Austrian art books and artists’ books selected by Bernhard Cella.
- Artzines.info, an online database for zines created and self-published by contemporary artists. Edited by Antoine Lefebvre.
- Artzines.net, blog on artists’ publications run by Moritz Grünke started in 2010.
- Artists' Books & Multiples, blog by Dave Dyment.
- Artists' Books in South Africa, ed. David Paton, est. 2006. Feat. Database of South African Artists' Books.
- Readers & Publishers, an online directory of independent publishers, ed. My Bookcase, est. 2018
- MoMA Library staff's tumblr blog.
- Das Kunstbuch blog by Marlene Obermayer.
- more, more
Recent exhibitions
See also exhibition catalogues above.
- Elements and Unknowns, Museum of Modern Art, New York, Sep-Nov 2008. Organised by May Castleberry. [130]
- The Artist Book in Slovenia 1966-2010, Kresija Gallery, Ljubljana, 14 Sep-Oct 2010; Digital Art Gallery at the London South Bank University, London, 13-28 Oct 2011. Curated by Tadej Pogačar/The P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute and Sonja Zavrtanik. Videos: The Artist Book in Slovenia: The '60s and '70s (15 min), The Artist Book in Slovenia: The '80s to Now (18 min). [131]
- Millennium Magazines, Museum of Modern Art, New York, Feb-May 2012. Organised by Rachael Morrison and David Senior. [132]
- Diamond Leaves:Brilliant Artist Books from Around the World, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, 2012. Curated by Xu Bing and Marshall Weber. [133]
- 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. [134]
- Artist/Novelist, Museum of Modern Art, New York, Jan-Mar 2014. Organised by Jennifer Tobias. [135]
- It is not new, it is a book, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Sep 2014-May 2015. Curated by Guy Schraenen.
- Notes on Location, Den Frie, Copenhagen, 14 Mar-19 Apr 2015. With a symposium. [136] [137] [138]
- 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.
- Artists' Books: from creative printing to artist publishing, National and University Library of Iceland, Reykjavík, 7 Jun 2018-2 Jun 2019. Curated by Unnar Örn Auðarson and Ólafur J. Engilbertsson. [139]
- Druck Druck Druck, Galerie im Körnerpark, Berlin, 13 Apr-14 Aug 2019. Curated by Nina Prader and John Z. Komurki.
- Kontakt with Guy Schraenen: Artists’ Publications, Sound, Films, and More, Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid, 20 Feb-11 Sep 2020.
- IVth Artist's Book Triennial Martin, Turiec Gallery, Martin, 21 Oct 2021-9 Feb 2022. Curated by Jarmila Kováčová and Gina Renotière.
- Off-Register: Publishing Experiments by Women Artists in Latin America, 1960-1990, Center for Book Arts, New York, 5 Oct-16 Dec 2023. Curated by Mela Dávila Freire.
- Paper and Film: Exhibition of author’s book & author’s and handmade film, GAMU, Prague, 3 Nov-3 Dec 2023. Curated by Michal Kindernay and Klára Zahrádková. Video (Artycok TV).
See also
Avant-garde and Modernist Magazines, Conceptual comics, Women in Concrete Poetry, Concrete Poetry, Zine culture, Fluxus, Russian Avant-garde Book