ISSN 1751-1712 (Print)
ISSN 1751-1720 (Online)
The Blue Notebook launched in October 2006 as a peer-reviewed journal, published twice a year.
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The journal is published in two formats: an electronic colour version to be accessed at any time online, and a paper, black and white version. Subscription covers both formats at £10 GBP per annum - UK and international.
Written contributions are peer-reviewed by a panel which includes: Tom Trusky, Susan Johanknecht, Maria Fusco, Buzz Spector, Ulrike Stoltz and Paulo Silveira.
Some back Issues are available at £5 GBP per copy, which includes access to the online colour version. To order back issues use the downloadable Blue Notebook subscription form above.
We welcome submissions of writing on contemporary artists’ books for The Blue Notebook, if you need any info or have any questions, please contact Sarah.Bodman@uwe.ac.uk.
Artist's page contributions are at the invitation of the art editor, Tom Sowden.
Please see the submission guidelines for written contributions.
Volume 4 No 1 published October 2009
Cover design by: the artist Stephen Fowler - who has also designed the badges and stickers for this volume.
Essays by: Reading in Installments: Book Art Meets Installation, by Elysa Voshell; PROJECT ‘(IN)VISIBLE’ Investigating forms of presentation of the Artist’ Book, by Frans Baake;
Personal Matters: Memories, Photography and the Book, by Kyoko Tachibana; Tongue and Groove - 25 Years of Liver and Lights, by Chloë King; Silent Reading - Typography & Sign language, by Nancy Campbell; Using Heidegger’s ideas on the nature of time and relating them to Keith Smith’s Book 91, investigating the book as a form of living art/live experience, by Sarah Clark; Blurring the Library, by Tate Shaw.
Artists’ pages by: Scott McCarney, Lilla Duignan, Giulia Resteghini, Dmitry Sayenko and Alice Potter
You can subscribe to Vol 4 No 1 and Vol 4 No 2 for £10 GBP by downloading the form at the top of this page.
Vol 3 No 2: May 2009
Essays by: Emily Artinian - photo essay: Allen Ruppersberg is everywhere. Lorna Crabbe - explores the archives of LCC to look at women’s craft history. Sarah Jacobs - Squirrels’ Tails and Burnished Gold. Linda Newington - takes a closer look at the work and influences of the artist John Dilnot.
Sophie Loss & Nicholas Bruce Lockhart - have posed a few questions about how artist’s book fairs might develop in the future. Sally Alatalo - interviewed by Tom Sowden and Sarah Bodman. Clifton Meador has made a special A DIY artist’s book Illuminated by the Light of Television in this issue.
Artists’ pages by: Angie Butler, Nadia Chalabi, Andrew Huot, Emily Larned, Lois Palframan.
You can subscribe to Vol 3 No 1 and Vol 3 No 2 for £10 GBP by downloading the form above.
Vol 3 No 1: October 2008
Essays by: Robyn Sassen considers the apartheid army as an unexpected incubator for artists’ books in South Africa; Dr Anne Hammond examines non-narrative sequence in photographic books; Your Turn: experiments in narrative and play is co-written by Patricia Allmer, Jonathan Carson, Rosie Miller and John Sears, exploring the book as a site for game-playing and storytelling; Kyoko Tachibana writes about the current state of book arts in Japan, where graphic design is prevalent, and artists’ books are often considered to be “designed” by artists; Danny Flynn shares his experiments with laser cutting acrylic to replace wood and metal type for letterpress print; and Tate Shaw’s Enfolded by Holes, considers the implications of our relationship with the open book.
Artists’ pages by: David Faithfull, Nick Thurston, Sandy Christie, Baysan Yüksel, E F Stevens, seekers of lice and Carson & Miller.
Cover, sticker and badge designed by Beth White and illustrated by Penny White. Beth White is a freelance designer; her cover, sticker and badge designs for The Blue Notebook are based on rebus puzzles, some of which are phonetic.email : cbethw@hotmail.com
Downloadable subscription forms:
tbn.rtf (fillable online, attached to e-mail or by print) or
tbn.pdf (printable only)
The journal is published in two formats: an electronic colour version to be accessed at any time online, and a paper, black and white version. Subscription covers both formats at £10 GBP per annum - UK and international.
Written contributions are peer-reviewed by a panel which includes: Tom Trusky, Susan Johanknecht, Maria Fusco, Buzz Spector, Ulrike Stoltz and Paulo Silveira.
Some back Issues are available at £5 GBP per copy, which includes access to the online colour version. To order back issues please tick the corresponding box for each on The Blue Notebook subscription form.
Vol 2 No 2 : April 2008
Essays by : Martin Antonetti & Mike Nicholson: Parallel Readings; Emily Artinian: Who cares where the apostrophe goes? non/participation in the Wikipedia definition of artists books; Jana Harper: ARTISTS’ BOOKS 2.0: DIY with POD; Emma Moxey: chimaerae verae, A Review; Tennille Shuster: Personalising Design Through Book Arts, and Tony White: Production not Reproduction: Photo-Offset Printed Artists' Books.
Artists’ pages by : David Abbott, Clinton Cahill, Jane Hyslop, Bertie Knutzen and J P Willis : out of print
Vol 2 No 1 : October 2007
Essays by : Melanie Bush and Emma Powell: Meeting in the Middle - A Book Arts Collaboration; Alan Halsey: IN THE ABSENCE OF BLANCHOT: Nick Thurston’s Reading the Remove of Literature; Sarah Jacobs: Readers 2; Mike Nicholson: STAND WELL BACK - Notes from the Locus position; Tate Shaw: Walking Through Walls: Meditations on Recto/Verso; Chris Taylor: The Top 100, National Gallery of Canada.
Artists’ pages by: Amin Musa, Joan Ainley, Todd Abbott, Jackie Batey and Manya Donaque
Cover and badge design by Helen Murgatroyd £5
Vol 1 No 2 : April 2007
Essays by : Lynn Sures (USA) VARIATIONS: on the Dialectic between Mingus and Pithecanthropus Erectus; Iain Biggs (UK) Place, Enchantment, and ‘Visual Refrain’: A context for recent book works by Helen Douglas; Frans Baake (The Netherlands): Kirjahduksia Affairs: Artists’ Books in Finland; Kyoko Tachibana (Japan): artists’ books news from Japan; Joanne Lee (UK) on the published works of Sharon Kivland; Nancy Campbell (UK) Creating Co-incidences; The Possibility of Poetry: from Migrant Magazine to Artists’ Books.
Artists’ pages by : Matt Lumby, Sue Platt, Christian Brett and Alice Smith, Anwen Williams and Nick Pearson. out of print
Vol 1 No 1 : October 2006 (out of print)
Essays by : Nola Farman : The Case for Failure in Artists’ Bookworks; Marshall Weber : Justice is Beautiful: Expanding the Paradigm of the Artist's Book; Sarah Jacobs : Reader; Mike Nicholson : Shelf Life - in consideration of new pages turned, fresh narratives and unexpected characters; Tate Shaw : Reading as Prowling, Furtive Roaming; Tim Mosely : Integrating artists' books and papermaking.
Artists' pages by: Bill Burns, Lucy May Schofield, Kurt Johannessen, Roy Voss and Angie Waller.
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