Published September 2011 by Impact Press
ISBN 978-1-906501-06-8
| Over 600 artist’s
book listings from 207 national and international artists. Reference
listings of: collections, libraries, archives, bookshops, galleries,
centres, design print & bind, publishers, dealers, presses, studios,
competitions, fairs, festivals and exhibitions, journals, reference
books, organisations, societies, websites, academic projects, touring
programmes and courses. Essays include: John Bently on books and community; Earle D. Swope’s extraordinary account of how he came to be a book artist; an update on the work of the collaborative artists’ group AMBruno; a study by Eileen O’Keefe of Sarah Jacobs’ thoroughly absorbing - Drawn from the Inventory: the Notebooks of Elisabeth Faulhaber; Jackie Batey celebrates the 10th issue of Future Fantasteek!; Lawrence Upton has written on his extensive art collaboration with Guy Begbie; Davy & Kristin McGuire explain their beautiful performance piece The Icebook; Nicola Dale looks at the artistic potential of book destruction, and Radoslaw Nowakowski asks: Is a hypertext (artist’s) book possible? Linda Newington explores the book works of SALT + SHAW; Paulo Silveira reflects on the start of his recent academic project: The University and the Artist’s Book, and Reinhard Grüner shows us some of the very special presentation copies of artists’ books in his collection. Artists’ pages by: Amir Brito Cadôr, Eric Doeringer, Lara Durback, the Idaho Book Artist’s Guild, Susan Johanknecht, Paul Laidler, SALT + SHAW, Clare Thornton and Maria White. Cover design by Tom Sowden. 254pp, 21 x 29.7 cm, paperback. £15 per copy (P&P inclusive in the price) UK £16 per copy (P&P inclusive in the price) Worldwide back |
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