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Gill Partington

LRBS 2024: The Artist's Book
Readings

Link to the course googledoc to pool reading materials, essays, websites, videos, images, links and whatever other artists' book resources you find most useful

https://bit.ly/ArtistsBooks2024

Seminar 1: Definitions, Perspectives and Problems

‘Idea Poll’, Art-Rite (no. 14 1976), pp 5-15

Ulises Carríon, ‘The New Art of Making Books’

Richard Kostelanetz ‘Book Art’ (N.B. this version is slightly different to the one in in the Joan Lyons anthology, listed in the handbook)

Lucy Lippard, ‘Conspicuous Consumption: New Artists’ Books,’ in Joan Lyons, (ed.) Artists’ Books: A Critical Anthology and Sourcebook (Rochester, NY: Visual Studies Workshop Press, 1985) pp. 49-58

Seminar 3: Destruction and Erasure

Garrett Stewart, ‘Bookwork as Demediation’, Critical Inquiry 36 (Spring 2010) pp. 410-457

Kaja Marczewska, This is not a Copy, (Bloomsbury, 2018) Extract

Seminar 5:
Cataloguing Artist's Books

Artist's Books - A Cataloguer's Manual (2013) Compiled by Maria White, Patrick Perratt and Liz Lawes for the ARLIS/UK & Ireland Cataloguing and Classification Committee (excerpt)
Anne Welsh, ‘For the bibliographers at UCL’: A Humument and the lessons it teaches 21st century librarians, ALJ, (2016)

Seminars 6 & 7: small press and periodical publishing

Gwen Allen, Artists' Magazines: an Alternative Space for Art (MIT Press, 2011): Chapter 2 – ‘The Magazine as Medium’, pp. 43-67

Anne Mœglin-Delcroix, 'Some Preliminary Observations toward a Study of the Varieties of Artist Publishers in the Sixties and Seventies', in Annette Gilbert (ed.), Publishing and Artistic Practice (Sternberg Press, 2016)

Seminar 9: Appropriation and Re-working

Annette Gilbert, Literature’s Elsewheres (Cambridge, MA.: MIT Press, 2022) pp 105-122

Mark Rawlinson, ‘Like Trading Dust for Oranges: Ed Ruscha and Things of Interest’ in Jeff Brouws et al. (eds.), Various Small Books: Referencing Ed Ruscha (Cambridge, MA.: MIT Press, 2013)

Seminars 12 & 13: Form and Format

Johanna Drucker “Distributed and Conditional Documents: Conceptualizing Bibliographic Alterities” MATLIT 2:1 (2014)

Brian Cummings, ‘What is a book’, in Diedre Lynch and Alexandra Gillsepie (eds), The Unfinished Book, (OUP, 2020)

Powerpoint slides

What is an artists' book?

Destruction and Erasure

Re-ing the book

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