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.

Artists, scholars, initiatives

• Artpool
• Banner Repeater
• Dušan Barok
• Beau Geste Press
• Bebe Books
• Delphine Bedel
• Sarah Bodman
• Boekie Woekie
• Franziska Brandt
• Ulises Carrión
• Center for Book Arts
• Ami Clarke
• 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
• Mikhail Karasik
• Leandro Katz
• Rebekka Kiesewetter
• J.H. Kocman
• Antoine Lefebvre
• Lucy R. Lippard
• Silvio Lorusso
• Alessandro Ludovico
• Aymeric Mansoux
• About Monoskop
• Kristen Mueller
• Michael Murtaugh
• OHO
• Page Not Found
• Clive Phillpot
• Printed Matter
• PrintRoom
• Ed Ruscha
• Guy Schraenen
• David Senior
• Femke Snelting
• Nick Thurston
• Torpedo
• UbuWeb
• Varia
• Eva Weinmayr

Recent exhibitions

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

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)

• Audrey Isselbacher, Iliazd and the Illustrated Book, New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1987, 85 pp. Catalogue. [2]

• Visible Language 25(2-3): "The Artist’s Book: The Text and Its Rivals", ed. Renée Riese Hubert, Apr 1991.
• Ralph Jentsch, The Artist and the Book in Twentieth-Century Italy, Turin: Umberto Allemandi, and New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1992, 341 pp. Catalogue. [3]
• Riva Castleman, A Century of Artists Books, New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1994, 263 pp. Catalogue. [4]
• The Journal of Artists' Books, ed. Brad Freeman, since 1994. [5]
  • 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. [6]
• 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, [7].
• Renée Riese Hubert, Judd D. Hubert, The Cutting Edge of Reading: Artists’ Books, New York: Granary Books, 1999, 280 pp. [8]

• Guy Schraenen, Out of Print: An Archive as Artistic Concept, Bremen: Neues Museum Weserburg, 2001, 255 pp. Catalogue. Selection of 700 works and documents drawn from the Archive for Small Press & Communication (ASPC) founded by Anner Marsily and Guy Schraenen in 1974. [9]
• Margit Rowell, Deborah Wye, The Russian Avant-Garde Book, 1910-1934, New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2002, 304 pp. [10] [11]
  • 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)
• Jaroslav Andel, Avant Garde Book Design, 1900-1950, New York: Delano Greenidge Editions, 2002, 388 pp. Review: Margolin (DI 2003).
• Duncan Chappell, "Typologising the Artist's Book", Art Libraries 28:4 (2003), pp 12-20.
• 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. [12]

• 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. Catalogue. [13] (Spanish)/(English)
• 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. [14] [15]. 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. [16]
• 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. [17]
• 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. [18]
• more, more, more.

Reader

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

See also

• Avant-garde and modernist magazines