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Far from being a staid survey of an art historical practice, “Freedom of the Presses” intervenes in an ongoing discussion about art and activism in the present day by considering the place of the art book in the 21st century. The publisher, Booklyn, has been involved in this conversation since 1999, when a group of six artists decided to band together to promote(...)
Freedom of the presses: Artists' books in the twenty-first century
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Far from being a staid survey of an art historical practice, “Freedom of the Presses” intervenes in an ongoing discussion about art and activism in the present day by considering the place of the art book in the 21st century. The publisher, Booklyn, has been involved in this conversation since 1999, when a group of six artists decided to band together to promote contemporary artists’ books and publications. This restless energy is present in Freedom of the Presses, which brings together a provocative mix of humorous, intimate and scholarly writing in order to expand how we think about the concept, content, design, production and distribution of artists’ and activists’ publications today. Aimed at a global community of librarians, publishers and readers, it offers models of how to reimagine contemporary artists’ bookmaking as a socially engaged, political practice.
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''Touch me not'' is an Austrian manuscript compendium of the black magical arts, completed c. 1795. Unique and otherworldly, it evokes a realm of visceral dark magic. As the co-editor of this volume Hereward Tilton notes, the manuscript “appears at first sight to be a ‘grimoire’ or magician’s manual intended for noviciates of black magic. Psychedelic drug use, animal(...)
Touch me not: a most rare compendium of the whole magical art
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''Touch me not'' is an Austrian manuscript compendium of the black magical arts, completed c. 1795. Unique and otherworldly, it evokes a realm of visceral dark magic. As the co-editor of this volume Hereward Tilton notes, the manuscript “appears at first sight to be a ‘grimoire’ or magician’s manual intended for noviciates of black magic. Psychedelic drug use, animal sacrifice, sigillary body art, masturbation fantasy and the necromantic manipulation of gallows-corpses count among the transgressive procedures it depicts. With their aid hidden treasures are wrested from guardian spirits, and the black magician’s highest ambition—an infernal transfiguration and union with the Devil—can be fulfilled.” Hidden for decades within the Wellcome Library collection, ''Touch me not'' is published here as a full-color facsimile.
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The politics of the joy of printing: Fredy and Lorraine Perlman, The Detroit Printing Co-op 1969-80
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In 1969, shortly after moving to Detroit with wife and partner Lorraine Nybakken, Fredy Perlman and a group of kindred spirits purchased a printing press from a Chicago dealer, transported it, in parts, back to Detroit in their cars and the Detroit Printing Co-op was born. Operating between 1969 and 1980 out of southwest Detroit, the Co-op was the site for the printing of(...)
The politics of the joy of printing: Fredy and Lorraine Perlman, The Detroit Printing Co-op 1969-80
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In 1969, shortly after moving to Detroit with wife and partner Lorraine Nybakken, Fredy Perlman and a group of kindred spirits purchased a printing press from a Chicago dealer, transported it, in parts, back to Detroit in their cars and the Detroit Printing Co-op was born. Operating between 1969 and 1980 out of southwest Detroit, the Co-op was the site for the printing of the first English translation of Guy Debord’s "Society of the Spectacle" and journals like "Radical America," produced by the Students for a Democratic Society; books such as "The Political Thought of James Forman" printed by the League of Revolutionary Black Workers; and the occasional broadsheet, such as Judy Campbell’s stirring indictment, "Open letter from ‘white bitch’ to the black youths who beat up on me and my friend."F redy Perlman was not a printer or a designer by training, but was deeply engaged in the ideas, issues, processes and materiality of printing. While at the Detroit Printing Co-op, he radically rethought the possibilities of print by experimenting with overprinting, collage techniques, different kinds of papers and so on. Behind the calls to action and class consciousness written in his publications, there was an innate sense of the politics of design, experimentation and pride of craft.
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No-ISBN: On self-publishing
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A book about extraordinary books that deliberately withdraw from the international book trade; A register containing 1,800 recent publications printed on paper, circulating without an International Standard Book Number (ISBN). A catalogue of micro- and alternative fairs held on four continents, an outline of media history, and manifestos from current avant-garde artists(...)
No-ISBN: On self-publishing
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A book about extraordinary books that deliberately withdraw from the international book trade; A register containing 1,800 recent publications printed on paper, circulating without an International Standard Book Number (ISBN). A catalogue of micro- and alternative fairs held on four continents, an outline of media history, and manifestos from current avant-garde artists interspersed with texts on the international boom of artists’ books, written by active practitioners of self-publishing. This first, richly illustrated reader has been compiled by a team of editors uniting the areas of conceptual art, media theory, and cultural studies. It thus offers a navigational aid in the discovery of new, uncharted terrain.
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Threads talks series
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THREADS, a series of talks devoted to the art of the book, includes poets, artists, and publishers. It explores and enriches relationships between various strands of book culture that are often approached in isolation: poetry and writing; visual and performing arts; collaboration; design; printing; independent publishing; literary history; critical theory; and material(...)
Threads talks series
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THREADS, a series of talks devoted to the art of the book, includes poets, artists, and publishers. It explores and enriches relationships between various strands of book culture that are often approached in isolation: poetry and writing; visual and performing arts; collaboration; design; printing; independent publishing; literary history; critical theory; and material culture. The premise for the series was very similar to the kind of interdisciplinary approach to the book that has interested us all along. A book is never more successful than the relationship between its parts; the philosophical and material connections between writing, art, design, typography, translation, and distribution is more significant than excellence in any isolated area. The talks were originally recorded before a small studio audience, then made available to the public on PennSound, and are now collected here in written form for the first time. THREADS began in March 2009 and concluded in October 2012. There were twelve speakers: Alan Loney; Charles Alexander; Simon Cutts; Buzz Spector; Jerome Rothenberg; Cecilia Vicuna; Jen Bervin; Kathleen Walkup; Johanna Drucker; Keith Smith; Richard Minsky; and Emily McVarish."
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An initiative of the Swiss Federal Office of Culture, the Most Beautiful Swiss Books competition aims to honour outstanding achievements in book design and to promote and showcase high-quality book production. The award-winning publications attract the attention of a wide audience through numerous book fairs and an exhibition tour in Switzerland and abroad. A total of(...)
The Most Beautiful Swiss Books 2020
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An initiative of the Swiss Federal Office of Culture, the Most Beautiful Swiss Books competition aims to honour outstanding achievements in book design and to promote and showcase high-quality book production. The award-winning publications attract the attention of a wide audience through numerous book fairs and an exhibition tour in Switzerland and abroad. A total of nineteen winning volumes appear in the 2020 edition, selected from among the 370 submissions. Due to health restrictions imposed by the pandemic, an ad hoc jury was convened for this edition, consisting of Gilles Gavillet, Nicolas Eigenheer, Simone Farner, Sereina Rothenberger, and Gesa Schneider.
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Genre longtemps méconnu, parfois mésestimé, la photolittérature est pourtant prisée des enfants, et de nombreux artistes s’essaieront à l’exercice. De 1886 à 2021, ces livres sont les témoins de leur époque, des courants pédagogiques, esthétiques et politiques, mais aussi des avancées techniques de ce médium. Photographes amateurs ou de renom s’empareront de ce format.(...)
Cent cinquant ans de photolitérature pour les enfants
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Genre longtemps méconnu, parfois mésestimé, la photolittérature est pourtant prisée des enfants, et de nombreux artistes s’essaieront à l’exercice. De 1886 à 2021, ces livres sont les témoins de leur époque, des courants pédagogiques, esthétiques et politiques, mais aussi des avancées techniques de ce médium. Photographes amateurs ou de renom s’empareront de ce format. Leur travail côtoie les textes d’auteurs reconnus et, ensemble, ils créent des œuvres surprenantes. Ce parcours dans cent cinquante ans de littérature photo-illustrée européenne et nord-américaine vous fera découvrir un pan passionnant de l’édition de livres pour enfants.
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Histoires de papiers
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Cet ouvrage accompagne la treizième exposition temporaire du Louvre Abu Dhabi, en collaboration avec le Louvre Paris. De la fabrication à la diffusion en passant par les progrès techniques, il illustre les nombreuses caractéristiques de ce matériau si familier qui s'efface parfois de nos usages au profit du numérique aujourd'hui ancré dans tous les aspects de nos vies(...)
Histoires de papiers
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Cet ouvrage accompagne la treizième exposition temporaire du Louvre Abu Dhabi, en collaboration avec le Louvre Paris. De la fabrication à la diffusion en passant par les progrès techniques, il illustre les nombreuses caractéristiques de ce matériau si familier qui s'efface parfois de nos usages au profit du numérique aujourd'hui ancré dans tous les aspects de nos vies quotidiennes. En explorant les différentes plantes qui en sont à l'origine, tout comme les nombreuses essences dont émane sa fabrication, la diversité des œuvres d'art présentées invite à découvrir les multiples utilisations du papier comme vecteur de créativité, d'idées et d'échanges à travers les siècles et les cultures. Incluant des œuvres des collections françaises, en particulier des œuvres du musée du Louvre, du musée Guimet, de la Bibliothèque nationale de France, du Centre Georges-Pompidou, ce catalogue est aussi l'occasion de mettre en lumière des artistes contemporains locaux ainsi que des créations contemporaines internationales.
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The photobook contextualizes arrangements of photographs and brings them into a sensually tangible form. The book format, the materiality of the paper, and the type of binding have just as much of an effect on the viewer as the selection of images, their positioning in the layout, typography, and the texts. Bettina Lockemann provides an approach to the medium from a(...)
Thinking the photobook: A practical guide
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The photobook contextualizes arrangements of photographs and brings them into a sensually tangible form. The book format, the materiality of the paper, and the type of binding have just as much of an effect on the viewer as the selection of images, their positioning in the layout, typography, and the texts. Bettina Lockemann provides an approach to the medium from a research perspective: considering the photobook as an independent subject of art theories, her phenomenological discussion complements methodological lines of thought. An important contribution to the photobook as an independent field of research, Lockemann elaborates precise terms for analyzing this medium. Through a practice-based examination of contemporary photobooks, this guide emphasizes the status of the photobook as an artwork in its own right.
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Prix Fernand Baudin 2010
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Au fil des pages de ce catalogue, le public, qu'il soit connaisseur ou néophyte, est invité à redécouvrir les projets nominés et lauréats du Prix Fernand Baudin. Ces livres primés ont une identité forte et distincte. Mais tous partagent le choix de l'audace et de la créativité sans concession.
Prix Fernand Baudin 2010
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Au fil des pages de ce catalogue, le public, qu'il soit connaisseur ou néophyte, est invité à redécouvrir les projets nominés et lauréats du Prix Fernand Baudin. Ces livres primés ont une identité forte et distincte. Mais tous partagent le choix de l'audace et de la créativité sans concession.
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