This website is a research project funded through the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture of the University of Johannesburg.

It contains recent research done on the South African Artist’s Book and includes sections from David Paton's dissertation titled South African Artists’ Books and Book-Objects Since 1960 and more recent essays; a catalogue and navigable layout of the 1st South African exhibition of Artists’ Books – Artists’ Books From the Ginsberg Collection – held at the Johannesburg Art Gallery in 1996; a digital and interactive catalogue of the Exhibition Navigating the Bookscape: Artists’ Books and the Digital Interface shown at the Aardklop Arts Festival and the FADA Gallery, University of Johannesburg in 2006; a searchable database of all South African artists’ books thus far researched and links to related sites of interest.